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 so sure, it's a great paper, but the Fed's not going to publish it until debate has finished on this topic.
And then like maybe nine months later, the BTU tax failed in Congress and then
He said, well, it's OK.
You can publish your paper now.
And we subsequently got it published to the top peer-reviewed journals, but cited a million times.
But I think very fondly of that story, because I think that that's what it means.
That's how much you have to pay attention to independence.
And so if you're thinking about things that could improve with the current Fed, it feels like first there's way more communication than there was when Greenspan was there.
It seems like everybody's out giving a talk every day, but they're giving talks about things that are relevant for what Congress is deciding today in ways that basically are not necessarily relevant for monetary policy.
And I think that Greenspan's approach is a superior one.
No, that was something else.
He very often would want to communicate things and you understood what he was saying.
It's just sometimes he didn't want to answer questions directly because people very often will say, hey, so what are you going to do with interest rates next week?
Or something like that.
That's when he would be hard to understand.
I don't know.
I think that you should have...
Transparency about the things that matter to you if you're a decision maker.
Where did you come up with now's a good time to do this or that?
What do you think?
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