Monetary Policy

U.S. Economy

Are we headed for the soft-ish landing projected by CBO and the Fed?

Wendy Edelberg, Lucas Fox, and Isabel Leigh

Thursday, March 23, 2023

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U.S. Economy

Who has to leave the Federal Reserve next?

David Wessel

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Mon

Apr

Upcoming Event

The economic view from Europe: A conversation with Pablo Hernández de Cos, governor of the Bank of Spain

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Washington, DC

Future Development

Government debt has declined but don’t celebrate yet

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, Kersten Stamm, and Naotaka Sugawara

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Reports

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Report

Macroeconomic stabilization for a post-pandemic world

Anton Korinek and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Monday, August 29, 2022

Essay

Lessons learned from monetary and fiscal policy during COVID-19

Robin Brooks and Jonathan Pingle

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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Monetary Policy

Taking stock of the new Fed and ECB monetary policy frameworks

David Wessel and Eric Milstein

Friday, January 21, 2022

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis?

Eric Milstein and David Wessel

Friday, December 17, 2021

Jerome H. Powell, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs during the Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress on Capitol Hill.

Financial Regulation

Diversity within the Federal Reserve System

Peter Conti-Brown and Kaleb Nygaard

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Blog Posts

Monetary Policy

3 key takeaways from the February CPI report

Chris Miller

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Future Development

US interest rate increases and crisis probabilities in developing economies

Carlos Arteta, Steven Kamin, and Franz Ulrich Ruch

Friday, January 27, 2023

Monetary Policy

6 key takeaways from the January CPI report

Chris Miller

Thursday, January 12, 2023

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BPEA Spring 2023 conference

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell: The economic outlook, inflation, and the labor market

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Alan Blinder: ‘A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021’

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST

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Experts

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Multimedia

Up Front

Key economic policy developments in 2022 and what to expect in 2023

Wendy Edelberg, Richard G. Frank, Aaron Klein, Sanjay Patnaik, and David Wessel

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

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Banking, credit, and economic fluctuations: Bernanke’s Nobel Prize lecture

Monday, December 12, 2022

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Will a strong dollar hurt emerging markets?

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Maurice Obstfeld, Haonan Zhou, Janice C. Eberly, and James Stock

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

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