Come watch the next debate in the widely acclaimed series. On Wednesday, January 12 at 5 pm, economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin will debate AEI scholar John Makin on the topic: Is QE2 the Titanic? Will monetary policy float or sink our economy?

In our second debate, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, delivers a critique of the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing, and John H. Makin, resident scholar in economics at AEI, counters in support of QE2 and the role monetary policy...

In our second debate, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, delivers a critique of the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing, and John H. Makin, resident scholar in economics at AEI, counters in support of QE2 and the role monetary policy can play in economic recovery.

The widely acclaimed American Enterprise Debates returns with another big question for our times: how much quantitative easing is too much?

Deficit-reduction measures in the new Congress and pressure to scale back the second round of quantitative easing could stunt U.S. economic growth and further dampen the global recovery.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would be wise to learn from the Titanic and slow his second experiment with quantitative easing, the expansion of the central bank’s balance sheet known as QE2.