Jerome Powell tells Scott Pelley if the Fed will raise interest rates again, gives his view on whether or not President Trump can fire him and outlines the current risks to the U.S. economy
How Fed Independence Came To Be
NPR “In the years before 1951, the Federal Reserve took orders from the Treasury, and by extension, from the President. The...
Ray Dalio interviews Paul Volcker
I sat down with one of my greatest heroes, Paul Volcker, to talk about the state of the economy and U.S. government as well as learn...
Interview with Paul A. Volcker (2013)
Given his new book is out, I dug up this 2013 interview by former Fed Governor Donald L. Kohn with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker:...
Never Send a Hawk to do a Dove’s Job
Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job Trump whines that his hand-picked Fed chief is raising rates too fast. He never should...
BBRG: Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job
Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job Trump whines that his hand-picked Fed chief is raising rates too fast. He never should...
Before the GFC There was LTCM . . .
We Forget That the Financial Crisis Had a Trial Run The collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management had the same ingredients:...
BBRG: We Forget That the Financial Crisis Had a Trial Run
We Forget That the Financial Crisis Had a Trial Run The collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management had the same ingredients:...
MIB: Appreciating the Fed
Why does the Federal Reserve attract so many conspiracy theorists and bashers That is one of the many research topics Peter Conti-Brown,...