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Nathan Tankus on Public Finance in the COVID-19 Crisis: A Consolidated Budget Balance View and its Implications for Policy

Published: May 11, 2020, 4:30 a.m.

Nathan Tankus is the director of research at the Modern Money Network, and a research fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Nathan is also the author of a number of articles on the Fed's recent activity at his Substack page titled \u201cNotes on the Crises.\u201d Nathan joins Macro Musings to talk about the post-Keynesian view of money, central bank independence, and the consolidated view of public finance, as well as evaluate the policy responses by the Fed and Congress to COVID-19.

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Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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Nathan\u2019s Twitter: @NathanTankus

Nathan\u2019s Substack page: https://nathantankus.substack.com/

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Bonus segment with Nathan:\xa0https://youtu.be/VPl0LYgttYI

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*Monetary, Credit, and Fiscal Policies: A Collection of Statements Submitted to the Subcommittee on Monetary, Credit, and Fiscal Policies by Government Officials, Bankers, Economists, and Others (specifically a comment made by Albert G. Hart) by the Joint Committee on the Economic Report

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/congressional/1949jec_mcfpstate.pdf#page=332

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