“The real cause of the Great Recession lay not in the housing market but in the misguided monetary policy of the Federal Reserve” -
“The Fed can control NGDP through its monetary policy, and as NGDP fell in 2008, the Fed should have lowered interest rates rapidly. If that proved insufficient, it should have increased the money supply through quantitative easing. Instead, the Fed, terrified of inflation, kept interest rates too high for too long—causing NGDP to fall even further.” -
Source: ForeignAffairs.com