Macro Musings with David Beckworth: 132 – Scott Sumner on the Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy, Ten Years Later after the Crisis

132 – Scott Sumner on the Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy, Ten Years Later after the Crisis

Nov 12, 2018

This week, Scott Sumner joins David Beckworth at the University of Texas at Austin for the Financial Crisis Symposium: “Ten Years Later: What Does the Data Say?” hosted by the Center for Enterprise and Policy Analytics at the McCombs School of Business. In this special live episode, Scott offers his thoughts on what the data tells us about the 2008 Financial Crisis from a monetary policy perspective. David and Scott also discuss using markets to guide monetary policy, why the Fed should conduct retrospective analyses, why we may want to replicate Australian monetary policy, and more.

Transcript to this week's episode

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