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Jeremy Stein on Finance, Unorthodox Ideas and Policymaking
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The Economist's Society
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Season 1
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Episode 4
Pondering about the financial implications of Covid-19? Intrigued by new economic tools argued in the news? Let your questions be answered by the American macroeconomist, former Board member of the Fed and Harvard academic, Professor Jeremy Stein!
In this episode, our distinguished guest gives his opinion on how the pandemic is being addressed by policymakers, shares his thoughts on unorthodox ideas, such as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and reveals key insight on his career as an academic and at the Fed. In our thought experiment, Professor Stein muses about a better integration between the two main components of the Fed: monetary policy, and regulation and financial stability.