Joe Weisenthal
speaker
562 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Joe Weisenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you go back to the Green Spanier, he wa the were the famous word to describe his style of communication was gnomic, right?
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And he didn't say many words, or if he did say a lot of words, no one understood what they were talking about.
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There was a long tradition of essentially like opacity in one way or another at the Fed.
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Sure.
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And so like if like I
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To some extent
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Like, you know, people's like, oh, it's so we're getting like, oh, these d the dots do not have some long intellectual tradition at the Fed.
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If they completely got rid of the Dodds, if they completely got rid of regular press conferences, which my gut is that Warsh would like to do because he doesn't really say anything at most of his press conferences, we would not be ripping up some hundreds of years of like No, we were ripping up precedents since two thousand eight.
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Sure.
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Some of the or two thousand nine.
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And some of this stuff made a lot of sense coming out of the great financial crisis.
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crisis.
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Like it was a
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They had a very specific challenge, which was that inflation was very low.
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They had cut rates to zero.
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If you had plugged the economic conditions of the Taylor rule uh into the some sort of like rule, it would have said like you have to cut rates to negative five.
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Yeah.
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They can't do that.
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I think a lot of things break when you have negative interest rates.
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So then they're like, well, how can we be further dovish once we hit the zero-lower bound?
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