Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, and Larry Summers have been having a debate about just why they think the Fed might have been premature in raising interest rates. The conversation surfaced a disagreement between Krugman and Summers over the legitimacy of worries about 'spooking the markets' with overly large fiscal deficits at the outset of the crisis.
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Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, and Larry Summers have been having a debate about just why they think the Fed might have been premature in raising interest rates. The conversation surfaced a disagreement between Krugman and Summers over the legitimacy of worries about 'spooking the markets' with overly large fiscal deficits at the outset of the crisis.