speeches · February 21, 2019
Regional President Speech
James Bullard · President
12/21/22, 5:40 PM
When Quantitative Tightening Is Not Quantitative Tightening | James Bullard | St. Louis Fed
Home > Latest from President Bullard > Speeches, Presentations and Commentary
From the President
When Quantitative Tightening Is Not Quantitative
Tightening
February 22, 2019
Presentation (pdf) | Press Release
Speaking at the 2019 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum in New York, St. Louis Fed President James
Bullard made the argument for why the Fed’s balance sheet policy may be less important today
than it was during the period when quantitative easing was most effective.
Bullard suggested that “it is indeed possible to view quantitative easing as having an important
influence on the macroeconomy and simultaneously view the macroeconomic effects of
unwinding the balance sheet as relatively minor.”
This may be one reason why the Federal Open Market Committee’s balance sheet reduction
policy beginning in the fall of 2017 “seemed to have only minor effects in financial markets,”
he said.
Read the related article in the St. Louis Fed On the Economy blog, March 7, 2019.
FOLLOW US
SIGN UP FOR EMAIL ALERTS
Receive updates in your inbox as soon as new content is published on our website
SIGN UP
https://www.stlouisfed.org/from-the-president/speeches-and-presentations/2019/quantitative-tightening
1/2
12/21/22, 5:40 PM
When Quantitative Tightening Is Not Quantitative Tightening | James Bullard | St. Louis Fed
QUICK LINKS
About Us
Legal Information
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Careers
Doing Business with the Fed
Events
Federal Reserve Services
Visiting the St. Louis Fed
Federal Banking Regulations
https://www.stlouisfed.org/from-the-president/speeches-and-presentations/2019/quantitative-tightening
2/2
Cite this document
APA
James Bullard (2019, February 21). Regional President Speech. Speeches, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20190222_james_bullard
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_regional_speeche_20190222_james_bullard,
author = {James Bullard},
title = {Regional President Speech},
year = {2019},
month = {Feb},
howpublished = {Speeches, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20190222_james_bullard},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}