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Economic policymakers and analysts talked about the future of interest rates and their effects on the economy. They discussed the relationship between the equilibrium interest rate and the n…

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley and Stanford University Economics Professor John Taylor talked about the monetary policy choices of the Federal Reserve. Topics incl…

Four former Federal Reserve employees talked about the domestic and global factors considered before raising interest rates. Other topics included what might happen interest rates are raised…

Matthias Doepke and Veronika Selezneva presented their paper on the impact of monetary policy on the distribution of wealth across households, “Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy,” wh…

Economists presented three papers the effect on inequality of the practice of “quantitative easing,” a policy in which the Federal Reserve purchases bonds in order to stimulate the economy. …

Former Federal Reserve Board Chair Ben Bernanke gave the keynote speech at a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities forum on policies that promote economic growth and employment. He talked a…

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis talked about his country’s economic challenges including its debt crisis and the negotiations between his country and the European Union for financial…

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble talked about the future of the Eurozone and the German economy. Then he was joined in discussion by David Wessel and Kemal Dervis. “Eurozone at …

Economic and tax policy experts talked about the processes used by the government in drafting and assessing budgets, and the steps taken to communicate and explain those figures to Congress …

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew spoke about the state of the U.S. economy and outlined President Obama’s business tax code proposals the day after President Obama’s State of the Union address. S…

Panelists talked about federal budget priorities and how to manage budget cuts for defense and social programs.

Fiscal policy experts talked about the federal budget and responding to fiscal uncertainty. This program was part of a Brookings Institution Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy…

Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf and Robert Chote, the director of the United Kingdom’s Office of Budget Responsibility, participated in a panel discussion comparing the b…