Steven Kelly on Crises, Stability, and the Feds Role in Financial Markets

Published: Sept. 19, 2022, 4:30 a.m.

Steven Kelly is a senior research associate at the Yale Program on Financial Stability. Steven joins David on Macro Musings to discuss his work on financial stability and the role the Federal Reserve plays in it. Specifically, David and Steven discuss the Fed\u2019s evolving role in niche financial markets such as commodities and derivatives markets, what Section 13.3 of the Federal Reserve Act says about the Fed\u2019s basis to engage in financial markets, proposals to improve the Fed\u2019s Standing Repo Facility (SRF), the future of stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in financial markets, and much more.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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