• Risk of double-dip receding but recovery sub-par
  • Impulse to try and boost jobs understandable but efficacy of more easing not established
  • targeted aid to small business may be more appropriate than broad easing
  • Fiscal, regulatory policies holding back recovery
  • Removing tax and regulatory uncertainty more desirable than bloating Fed’s balance sheet
  • BOJ move raises concerns of “competitive quantitative ease”
  • Worried about central banks moving beyond government and mortgage debt (like Japan id doing)