It’s hardly an encouraging sign of a nation’s economic vitality when its most optimistic policymakers are its central bankers.

How will the Fed “unwind” its balance sheet — that is, sell off the bonds it has purchased — without harming the economy?

Please join our panel of experts as they examine how the Fed can help boost the US economy and create more stable growth in the long run.

In this book forum, Brown will address the Federal Reserve’s role in creating periodic bubbles and busts, both in the US and around the world, over most of its 100-year life.

While being questioned in his Semi-Annual Report to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was criticized as dovish for his expansion of the Fed's balance sheet. In response, Bernanke retorted, "You called me a dove ... My inflation record is the best of any of the governors in the post-war period."

The final lap of the Bernanke era at the Fed has begun.

Holding a mortgage investment portfolio bigger than Fannie Mae’s or Freddie Mac’s, along with a massively expanded government bond portfolio, puts the Federal Reserve into uncharted waters of interest rate risk.