Since the meltdown of 2008, the Academy’s Critical Economic Issues courses have focused on the new and complex economic challenges caused by the asset bubbles and busts, credit contraction, resulting steep recession, quantitative easing, and the painfully slow recovery of the 2007-14 period. Jim has clearly explained both the economic fundamentals involved and the (often unexpected) interactions of the fiscal and monetary policy choices that were made and implemented–all described without the mathiness and gobbledygook that many economists use to confuse/impress people. This fall, Jim is offering a new course that builds on the existing foundation presented over the past six years. It will address the significant choices among policy options that must now be made and implemented if the economy is to return to the robust secular growth trends of the past four decades.
