Austan (Austan) Goolsbee
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656 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Austan (Austan) Goolsbee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mm-hmm.
it came a different way it went it went from the bottom up not not from the top down that's the point and you can go bottom up with less money than than top down it always it always works that way and it didn't turn into a financial crisis which it easily could have and by the way the caveat to all of that the coda
Yeah, look, my thing wasn't rooted in moral hazard.
And I still, to this day, despise that we got to... I understand why we had to do the bailouts once everything's on fire.
But we shouldn't be happy about it.
I mean, it's still awful.
I still think it could have worked the other way around.
I still think it could have worked the other way around.
I do think it could.
But we would have had to have had kind of a national...
commitment to, we want to spend the money to do this in a way that we did have when it came to COVID.
Everybody could see, let's not lose World War II for the sake of balancing the budget.
Way in the weeds.
Just remember.
Yeah, go ahead.
The Fed doesn't just set interest rates.
We're also $6 trillion a day of the payment plumbing when anybody's doing wire transfers and making payments.
All the cash in the economy is printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
It's getting distributed by the reserve banks.
And if you ever come out to Chicago, I'll take you down.
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