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Jun 2019
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Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the ...

Financial Times
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The economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow talks to FT contributor Megan Greene about the fiscal policies that lawmakers could arrange now that would automatically kick in when some of the early signs of a slowdown start to appear.

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