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Slate Money | The Coolest Thing in the World for an Econ Nerd

Slate Money | The Coolest Thing in the World for an Econ Nerd

Update: 2025-11-28
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This week: Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee joins  Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck for an in-depth discussion on what exactly the Fed does. They’ll get into how voting and deliberation works at the FOMC, the different eras of the Fed’s communication strategy, his response to the Fed haters, and Data Dogs vs Data Cats. 


In the Slate Plus episode: Austan Goolsbee Interview Post-Mortem.


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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.



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Slate Money | The Coolest Thing in the World for an Econ Nerd

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