Megan Greene on How to Use Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Fight the Coronavirus Crisis

Macro Musings with David Beckworth - Podcast autorstwa Mercatus Center at George Mason University - Poniedziałki

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Megan Greene is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and a senior fellow in international economics at Chatham House. Formerly, Megan was a chief economist on Wall Street and she currently has a bi-weekly column in the Financial Times on global macroeconomics. She joins the show today to talk about the coronavirus and the appropriate policy response to it as well as the future countercyclical macro policy in the United States. David and Megan also discuss the Fed’s future framework, arguments against the recent 50 basis point rate cut, and why the Fed should consider following the ECB’s lead on TLTROs as well as negative interest rates.

Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings

Megan’s Twitter: @economistmeg

Megan’s website: https://economistmeg.com/about/