Macro Musings with David Beckworth6 Huhti 2020

Peter Conti-Brown on the CARES Act and the Expanding Fed-Treasury Relationship in Response to COVID-19

Peter Conti-Brown – a legal scholar and financial historian at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution – returns to Macro Musings to discuss the new Fed-Treasury relationship that is emerging in the wake of the war against COVID-19. Peter and David breakdown the CARES Act, the aggressive and extensive policies recently taken by the Fed, and the implications for monetary policy moving forward.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Peter's Twitter: @PeterContiBrown

Peter's Brookings profile: https://www.brookings.edu/author/peter-conti-brown/

Peter's Wharton profile: https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/petercb/

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