Peter Conti-Brown on the Fed under Trump 2.0, Reforming the Discount Window, and Providential Moments

Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter returns to the podcast to discuss the state of Federal Reserve leadership under the incoming Trump administration, expectations for Fed independence, a new proposal for limiting stigma at the discount window, stories about a life lead by faith, and much more.

Check out the transcript for this week’s episode, now with links.

Recorded on January 10th, 2025

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:01:23) – Reaching Audiences Through Various Forms of Media

(00:10:30) – Federal Reserve Under Trump 2.0

(00:21:33) – Jerome Powell

(00:25:56) – Michael Barr

(00:34:52) – New Discount Window Proposal

(00:40:27) – Faith Life

(00:56:28) – Radical Uncertainty

(01:00:15) – Outro