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The Yen Rescue Hiding America’s Trillion-Dollar Bond Problem
America’s surprise defense of the yen looked like a favor to Japan. Patrick Boyle argues it was really a high-stakes attempt to keep a trillion-dollar Treasury customer from turning seller.
japanese-yen · us-treasuriesRead →
Scientist · Executive · Advisor
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, one of the most closely watched voices on U.S. interest rates and inflation. A longtime University of Chicago Booth economist who chaired Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, he is equally known for empirical research on the internet and taxes and for being the rare central banker who once won Washington's funniest celebrity contest.
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