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    Inflation and Monetary Policy, Economists Panel

    The Brookings Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy held a discussion on the role inflation plays in shaping U.S. monetary policy. In this session, economists discussed alternatives …

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    Monetary Policy and Inflation

    The Brookings Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy held a discussion on the role inflation plays in shaping U.S. monetary policy. In this session, experts including former Federal R…

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    Monetary Policy and the Economy

    Speakers talked about the economy and future tools available to lawmakers when another recession hits. Several of the panelists worked in previous administrations including those of Presiden…

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    Lessons Learned from the 2008 Financial Crisis

    Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, talked about financial regulations enacted following the 2008 financial crisis. Then he was joined in discussion by forme…

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    Banking and Financial Markets

    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…

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    Federal Reserve Interest Rate Policy

    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…

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    U.S. Monetary Policy, Part 2

    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…

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    U.S. Monetary Policy, Part 1

    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. …

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    State of the Greek Economy

    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…

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    European Economic Policy

    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 …

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    Economic and Tax Policy

    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…

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    Federal Spending Caps

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

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    Federal Budget

    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…

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    Budget Process in the U.S. and the U.K.

    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…

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    Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke on Monetary Policy

    Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke talked about the work of the Federal Reserve System on its 100th anniversary. Topics included his handling of the financial crisis and the future …

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    Federal Reserve System

    Panelists discussed the economic policies of the Federal Reserve System on its 100th anniversary, focusing on the degree of independence of the central bank. All speakers took questions from…

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    Federal Reserve Policies and Regulation

    Panelists discussed the economic policies of the Federal Reserve System on its 100th anniversary. John Williams presented a paper on Chair Bernanke’s unconventional fiscal policies to fight …

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