Ann Wroe
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865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That seemed to work, so he steadied the ship.
And when Bill Clinton became president, the economy was really beginning to boom.
And he was in charge of it.
He made very sure that he consulted weekly.
even daily sometimes with the President and with the Secretary of the Treasury.
And he kept the boom, going along for more or less the whole of that decade.
If people thought it was overheating, he would simply tell them to be cool.
He believed there would be a productivity miracle that would manage to keep the economy thriving as it was without risking inflation.
He was right for much of that decade, but then by the end of it he was beginning to let it get away from him.
It seemed, after all, that the boom was becoming inflationary.
He warned of irrational exuberance.
The stock market getting a little too excited.
And eventually, of course, it crashed.
There was a recession.
There was then a jobless recovery.
And there was then a dangerous looking housing boom.
So the economy was going all sorts of different ways that were perplexing even to him, and he had to somehow keep command over it, but no longer quite so surely as he had before.
By the time he left his job he had extremely good reputation and left it to great applause, but he got out just before the global financial crisis.
He still defended the Fed when people came and asked him what he might have done otherwise.
He defended the low interest rates which have sparked growth, and he was blaming the bad economic conditions in America at that time on the failure of the Obama administration as he saw it to stimulate growth.
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