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Anat Admati is a professor of finance and economics at Stanford University, and is well-known for her work on leveraging debt in our financial system and how it makes our economy more susceptible to shocks. She\u2019s also a co-author of the popular book, *The Banker\u2019s New Clothes: What Went Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It*. Anat joins Macro Musings again to talk about the COVID-19 crisis from the debt perspective, how the Fed and Congress have responded so far, and how their relief efforts should have been focused differently. \xa0\xa0

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The transcript for the episode can be found here.

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Anat\u2019s Twitter: @anatadmati

Anat\u2019s website: https://admati.people.stanford.edu/

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Related Links:

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Bonus segment with Anat: https://youtu.be/4xHmmgoURqg

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*The Banker\u2019s New Clothes: What\u2019s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It* by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691162386/the-bankers-new-clothes

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*The Leverage Ratchet Effect* by Anat Admati, Peter DeMarzo, Martin Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jofi.12588

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*Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts* by Oscar Jorda, Mortiz Schularick, and Alan Taylor

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2016-23.pdf

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*Coronavirus Crisis Lays Bare the Risks of Financial Leverage, Again\u201d by Martin Wolf

https://www.ft.com/content/098dcd60-8880-11ea-a01c-a28a3e3fbd33

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*House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again* by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20832545.html

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*Collateral Frameworks: The Open Secret of Central Banks* by Kjell Nyborg

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/collateral-frameworks/DE8BACD87F364A66DD496F601BE92FE7

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*Bankruptcy for Banks: A Sound Concept That Needs Fine-Tuning* by Mark Roe and David Skeel

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/business/dealbook/bankruptcy-for-banks-a-sound-concept-that-needs-fine-tuning.html

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David\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth