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cover of episode Macro Musings LIVE: Selgin on the Fed’s Experimental Monetary Framework

Macro Musings LIVE: Selgin on the Fed’s Experimental Monetary Framework

2019/1/15
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The Mercatus Center’s David Beckworth) comes to Cato for a live recording of his popular Macro Musings podcast, interviewing George Selgin) about his new book Floored!: How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession). Floored! is the first comprehensive account of the Federal Reserve’s new post-crisis “floor” monetary policy operating system. Marking his fourth Macro Musings episode, Selgin will share his three-year research journey into this new experimental system, how the Fed stumbled into it, and its consequences for the economy — including how it could turn the Fed into a Trojan piggybank of fiscal profligacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy) for more information.