Narayana Kocherlakota, Columnist

Trump Starts Making Economic Sense

Combining easy money with government stimulus could be a good idea.

April 28, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2009 to 2015.

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