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On the recordJune 27, 2017
But I think when I look at the debate over monetary policy, the big problem is that we are not looking enough at the distributional consequences of this.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Emphasis on the need to consider distributional effects in monetary policy debates.

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