Skanda Amarnath, Yakov Feygin, and Elizabeth Pancotti on Municipal Bond Market Intervention and the CARES Act as Responses to COVID-19

Published: April 1, 2020, 4:30 a.m.

Skanda Amarnath is the Director of Research and Analysis at Employ America, Yakov Feygin is the Associate Director of the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute, and Elizabeth Pancotti is a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at Tufts University. Together, they have put together proposals on how to better address the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis at the state and local level. They join Macro Musings today to discuss these proposals, a municipal bond market and expanded unemployment insurance, as well as what it all means for making the US economy more of an optimal currency area.

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Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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Skanda\u2019s Twitter: @IrvingSwisher

Skanda\u2019s Medium profile: https://medium.com/@skanda_97974

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Yakov\u2019s Twitter: @BuddyYakov

Yakov\u2019s Berggruen Institute profile: https://www.berggruen.org/people/yakov-feygin/

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Elizabeth\u2019s Twitter: @ENPancotti

Elizabeth\u2019s website: https://sites.google.com/view/elizabethpancotti/home

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Related Links:

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*The Fed Can and Should Support State Government Efforts to Respond to COVID-19 Right Now* by Skanda Amarnath and Yakov Feygin

https://medium.com/@skanda_97974/the-fed-can-and-should-support-state-government-efforts-to-respond-to-covid-19-right-now-5e5ecf7b7ed8

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*Unemployment Benefit Expansions: A Guide for Policy Responses in the Wake of COVID-19* by Elizabether Pancotti

https://medium.com/@employamerica/unemployment-benefit-expansions-a-guide-for-policy-responses-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-ec3da6e8701

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