You are an FOMC member, and you know that, in the last few recessions, the Fed cut interest rates by around 500 basis points. As the pandemic loomed in early 2020, the bottom of the Fed Funds target range was at 1.5 percent (the Fed only had around 150bp room to cut), while PCE inflation (your favourite inflation measure) was near the 2 percent target. What other options were available to the Fed? How do they work?

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