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Michael S. Barr: Our role is to ensure that the financial system is resilient to risks. Those logically could include climate risks, and…

On the recordMay 18, 2021
Our role is to ensure that the financial system is resilient to risks. Those logically could include climate risks, and so we need to analyze how that could happen. But it is not our job to use the financial system as a tool of broader climate policy.
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Michael S. Barr

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Barr clarifies the Fed's role regarding climate change and financial policy.

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