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Engine of Inequality, by Karen Petrou
The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot richer while the middle class shrank and economic and wealth inequality skyrocketed. In Engine of Inequality, Karen Petrou offers pragmatic solutions for creating more inclusive monetary policy and equality-enhancing financial regulation as quickly and painlessly as possible.
“Petrou’s book uncovers a hidden engine of our skyrocketing inequality: financial-policy. In an accessible and engaging prose, Petrou takes us through the inner workings of monetary policy at the Fed and financial regulations, how they’ve made inequality worse and how they could instead be retooled to take us to a more equitable future. A novel look at the problem of inequality and bold ideas to help resolve it. A must read.”—Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley and author of The Triumph of Injustice
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NPR, Marketplace Morning Report: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Your move, Federal Reserve Host Sabri Ben-Achour Today is the eve of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech, where he's expected to lay out the current economic landscape and offer hints as to what the Fed might do with it in a couple of weeks. For more, we talk with Karen [...]
American Banker Podcast: Tuesday, November 22, 2022
'Democrats lost the house. I'm less convinced that Republicans won it.' Host John Heltman Welcome to the American Banker Podcast. I'm John Heltman. As you probably heard, we had an election a few weeks ago and as you also may have heard the outcome, at least in terms of which parties [...]
American Banker, November 14, 2022
For the Fed, less bad news is good news By Kyle Campbell After a year of scrutiny and criticism, the Federal Reserve had a good week — or, at least, a week that was much better than it could have been. Two major developments last week bolstered the central bank's [...]
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FedFin on: The Big Squeeze
Making an important addition to the ongoing debate about Treasury-market liquidity, a new paper from the Bank for International Settlements provides sobering data on agency MBS liquidity with significant implications not only for secondary-market liquidity, but also primary-market stability..... The full report is available to subscription clients. To find out how you can sign up for the service, click here.
Karen Petrou: Bank Canaries in the Crypto Mineshaft
Just because crypto hasn’t triggered a systemic collapse doesn’t mean that it won’t be the perpetrator of quiet banking crashes. We would do well to remember that the 2008 calamity came shortly after the collapse of small subprime-mortgage finance companies. These would have been proverbial dead canaries had anyone looked down the mineshaft. And, even as the U.S. subprime crashes formed into a single, torrential crisis, bank regulators confidently foretold [...]
FedFin: We’re Starting to See SIFIs
As came out into the open last week, FSOC will finally turn to rewriting the Trump era rewrite of the Obama Administration’s FSOC protocols regarding systemic financial institutions and activities. Could the SIFI reaper be coming for Fannie and Freddie? We doubt it, but then again... The full report is available to subscription clients. To find out how you can sign up for the service, click here.