Kevin Hassett
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2,210 appearances
195 recordings
16 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 10 Aug
Kevin Hassett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was like about 1.5%.
because of that.
And so he was kind of like, yeah, we're really growing way more than we think.
We've got a serious measurement problem.
And then if you extrapolate from that, then if you're hedonically adjusting everything that gets like a computer to make it better, then you're putting like a deflationary force into the economy that's not being measured.
And so I think that it could be that the communications story was a key moment where, you know, everybody at the board had a, aha, yeah, I can understand why Alan is so convinced about this.
No, I was the business fixed investment person.
Economic activity.
No, that's the only one.
Well, that was my area, right, is capital spending and taxes and business investment.
The weight of GDP.
Right.
Remember that?
Yes, yes.
He had people who had to calculate the weight of GDP.
I'm not kidding.
Now, they have the- I used to write the green book twice a year.
Is it the teal book?
Why did they do that?
That's probably where all their problems began.
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