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  Speaker 1: a very contentious, very hot topic and monetary policy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if your name is John Taylor, and you have a
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  Speaker 1: rule named after the Taylor Rule, and if you are
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  Speaker 1: holding a monetary policy conference for the third year in
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  Speaker 1: a row, that's what you can get. John Taylor is
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  Speaker 1: with us here at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. John,
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  Speaker 1: of course the George P. Schult's Senior Fellow in Economics
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  Speaker 1: at Hoover. He's the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of
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  Speaker 1: ECON at Stanford University, and so much more. In this
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  Speaker 1: year the conference is entitled International Monetary Stability, Past, Present
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  Speaker 1: and Future. So John, thank you for inviting me back
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  Speaker 1: to the conference. It's great to be here. Glad you
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  Speaker 1: could could become Glad you could be here and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have you on the show today. The conference
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  Speaker 1: officially kicks off tomorrow, but I wanted to get you
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  Speaker 1: on the show today so we could really take our
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  Speaker 1: time to put the issues on the table, so our
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  Speaker 1: listeners will be already for tomorrow. So the monetary policy
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  Speaker 1: rule that you have, the Taylor rule, in essence, takes
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  Speaker 1: a look at unemployment and inflation, a couple of coefficients
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  Speaker 1: and then says, what what what a central bank should do.
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  Speaker 1: You say, we're not even we're not exactly applying to
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  Speaker 1: the United States, but you say, it's really important now
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  Speaker 1: to apply that rule overseas for starters. What's the rule?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it so important? Well, when when they fed
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  Speaker 1: another central banks came close to using this type of
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  Speaker 1: rule or procedure, things work really well. They moved the
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  Speaker 1: interest rate around in a pretty predictable way, and the
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  Speaker 1: economy was good. Is it's a good time, And when
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  Speaker 1: other center banks do the same thing. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of evidence both in economics and experience that this
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing works and read sutly central banks have
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  Speaker 1: gone different directions, and in some sense that's the purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Our conferences say, why is there so much difference in
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  Speaker 1: exchange rates are moving and capital flows are moving, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the instability that we're concerned about. And the thought
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  Speaker 1: is of central banks and the sense got back to
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  Speaker 1: a more normal approach, which is a policy rule approach
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  Speaker 1: that they could eliminate a lot of this instability. John Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether you're familiar with Bill Maher, the
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  Speaker 1: television interviewer, but he has a segment where he says
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  Speaker 1: new rules, and I'm wondering if you could talk about
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  Speaker 1: new rules based systems or a new rules based world economy.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about how a rules based system would work. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen with experiences when central banks have more
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  Speaker 1: predictable policies, so people know what they're doing when they're
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  Speaker 1: moving the interest rate around, which is what they usually do,
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  Speaker 1: then it provides more stability. And so a rules base
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  Speaker 1: means you kind of know what's up, what the government's
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  Speaker 1: up to, what the center banks are up to, and
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  Speaker 1: they around the world know what each other is up to,
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  Speaker 1: so it provides a real sort of sense of guidance
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  Speaker 1: and stability. It's kind of natural you know what your
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  Speaker 1: counterparts are doing. Other parts of the world. We've sent
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  Speaker 1: We've seen it work in other areas of international policy,
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  Speaker 1: trade policy. Rules based strategies have been out there a
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  Speaker 1: long time and experienced people people like poll Vocal used
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  Speaker 1: to run the FED, people like George SCHULTZU many cabinet
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  Speaker 1: posts recognize this importance of a strategy and advocating we
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  Speaker 1: moved back to this kind of thing. It's really not
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  Speaker 1: so new. The world is different, but it's it's something
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  Speaker 1: that's worked in the past and it will work again. Well,
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  Speaker 1: is there really a rules for all season though? John?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't discretion have a role because there a certain center.
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  Speaker 1: Feds always sid inflation rises, raise rates, you know, job
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  Speaker 1: the job market gets too tight, going to start headquarter recession,
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  Speaker 1: you cut rates and there's a certain then there's something
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  Speaker 1: discretion based around your evaluation of those numbers and what
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  Speaker 1: they're with the trends are where they're going. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: advantage of a rule of procedures, you know when they're
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  Speaker 1: going to do it and by how much, And it's
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  Speaker 1: not just winging it and saying we're going to move
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  Speaker 1: by this amount when we think we will and and
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  Speaker 1: get off of it. So there's quite a bit of
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  Speaker 1: difference and and of course in any situation, you need
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  Speaker 1: to have some discretion. All the proposals that I've certainly
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  Speaker 1: worked on that are being proposed now allow for some
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  Speaker 1: discretion in a case of emergency, In case of a panic,
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  Speaker 1: of course you have to have that, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you do it all the time. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a system or a strategy in place. Again,
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  Speaker 1: so people know what you're up to. Interest rates. Are
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  Speaker 1: interest rates too low? Yes? I think they are at
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  Speaker 1: this point. There has been a real effort to try
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  Speaker 1: to raise them in the US last year they took
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  Speaker 1: a stab at into somebody seem to be backing off.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, they've been near zero for a law
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Other central banks have followed the FED
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  Speaker 1: down quite frankly, and it's become more of a global things.
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  Speaker 1: So a good fraction of the center banks in the
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  Speaker 1: world have rates which are nears are or even slightly
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  Speaker 1: less than zero. Very unusual situation, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: part of the sense in which it's it's unusual and
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  Speaker 1: therefore not rule like. So the idea that that's what
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  Speaker 1: will be you're discussing at this conference with real practitioners
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  Speaker 1: and people have been working at this for many, many
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  Speaker 1: years to see why are we in this unusual situation.
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  Speaker 1: Some people think it's just right. I don't, but I
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  Speaker 1: think we're gonna explore that, and I believe see that
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  Speaker 1: there's an advantage of normalizing rates at this point in
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  Speaker 1: time if you're a country like Japan which has had deflation.
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  Speaker 1: Europe's with with the deflation, are negative interest rates consistent
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  Speaker 1: with the Taylor rule? Well, at this point in Japan's situation,
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  Speaker 1: they've tried everything they could. They have had a new
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  Speaker 1: central bank with a gigantic amount of quantitative easy and
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  Speaker 1: that means purchases of security. So it's it's much more
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  Speaker 1: in the zero or negative rates, and and it really
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  Speaker 1: hasn't worked. I think that's the concern. These policies don't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be working, and they're basically exchanged the exchange rates.
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  Speaker 1: They make a big difference on that, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what really the attention is at this point is exchange
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  Speaker 1: rates moving around and capital flows moving around, and they're
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  Speaker 1: really not helping the Japanese economy. If anything, they're going
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way. We're going to continue the conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now is John Taylor for a continuing conversation
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  Speaker 1: about economics. He's a professor of economics at Stanford University
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  Speaker 1: has also Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Taylor. And denying that something is true just because
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  Speaker 1: it suits your fancy doesn't make it any less true.
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  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is if you ask
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  Speaker 1: a child if something happens in another part of the country,
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  Speaker 1: and will it affect them, many of them understand yes,
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  Speaker 1: it will global warming, various types of things. Why our
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  Speaker 1: economists seemingly immune to this connection, Well, I don't or
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  Speaker 1: that or FED officials, I guess I should say more specifically, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know quite candidly, a lot of FED
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  Speaker 1: officials think too much about what's happening all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe just the opposite of what you're saying that
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  Speaker 1: there's a sense in which if they react to every
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  Speaker 1: little wiggle and every little movement all around the world,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be doing too many things. So the
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  Speaker 1: trick is to find the big things that are really
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  Speaker 1: moving the economy or require some response, and and that
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  Speaker 1: does take judgment, but it also takes experience. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I think these rules or strategies which shay which is
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  Speaker 1: the things you're gonna react to and which are not,
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  Speaker 1: isn't so important. So let's take a look a couple
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  Speaker 1: of papers that are coming up at the conference tomorrow, John,
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  Speaker 1: particularly for our listeners who are FED nerds like us,
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  Speaker 1: and I really want to dive into these which will
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  Speaker 1: be accessible as well. Um the fan often says when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to its moves that sure it could impact
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  Speaker 1: emerging markets, but remember a very extensive analysis that FED
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of years ago about oh, there are
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  Speaker 1: all these other things in markets are reacting to when
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  Speaker 1: they sold off, not FED moves, right. But Sebastian Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: actually economist has done a paper which suggests that there's
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  Speaker 1: direct links and direct impact of the FEDS moves on
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world. Yes, he is one of
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  Speaker 1: the people giving papers a dis conference which he studied
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  Speaker 1: carefully and saw these impacts in Latin American countries, but
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  Speaker 1: you can see them in other countries as well, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's there, and you know, you you think that
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  Speaker 1: there's reasons the exchange rates could move, interest rates couldn't move,
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  Speaker 1: and the US is a powerful federal reserve, has a
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  Speaker 1: powerful set of reserves, so that's going to have these impacts.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is how do we deal with that?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why that's why I think you need to
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  Speaker 1: have some sense of cooperation or some sense of global
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  Speaker 1: aspects of this. One of the most outspoken central bankers
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  Speaker 1: in the world these days as the central banker runs India,
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  Speaker 1: ragu Rajan, and he can see some of these impacts
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  Speaker 1: on his own country. So I think it's important for
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  Speaker 1: the world to take these into account. Does the world
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  Speaker 1: pay too much attention to the Federal Reserve? The Federal
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  Speaker 1: Reserve is the most significant central bank. The dollar is
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  Speaker 1: the most significant currency, so they have to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the Federal Reserve. I think what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do is find a way for the Bank of the
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  Speaker 1: United States, the FED, to integrate its policy and think
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  Speaker 1: more about its impact on the world, because the world
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  Speaker 1: does feedback on the United States. Even if you're just
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  Speaker 1: concerned about the United States, if you're mandated to be
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  Speaker 1: concerned about US inflation and unemployment, you've got to think
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  Speaker 1: about the impacts on the rest of the world because
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  Speaker 1: it can come back and hurt you. So the FED
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  Speaker 1: as a superpower that maybe he has gotten too powerful.
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  Speaker 1: That's also being addressed at the conference tomorrow. John. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: one of the interesting papers David Beckworth is giving is
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  Speaker 1: about the FED as a superpower. That reflects the reality
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  Speaker 1: that the Federal Reserve is a is a a power
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  Speaker 1: full central bank and superpower. Is maybe wanted to underline that,
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  Speaker 1: but you need to take that into account and the
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  Speaker 1: dollar its role. The dollar is important. It's not disappearing.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of people talking about the Chinese currency can
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  Speaker 1: be more important, but it's still the dollar, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to think about how to make that work. How
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  Speaker 1: would you debate or how would you push forward the
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  Speaker 1: idea of interest rate increases to the Federal Reserve Bank
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  Speaker 1: presidents that vote against them, how would you convince them? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the main thing is in the past, when we've had
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  Speaker 1: policies with higher interest rates, in these circumstances, things that
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  Speaker 1: work much better. And there are colleagues of those people
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  Speaker 1: at the FED who think exactly the same. They've seen
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  Speaker 1: history and they can see it works. Economics is a
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  Speaker 1: confusing science for lots of people, so there's different viewpoints.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way it is. So you've got to persuade,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta talk, and you know, there are times where
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  Speaker 1: policy is not great. You've got to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get back to good policy. It'll be better for
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  Speaker 1: the economy. John, what would you change about the federalssor
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  Speaker 1: of Peter Fisher, who was the head of the Market's
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  Speaker 1: Desk of the New York Fed, gave a talk just
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago saying that the size of the
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  Speaker 1: f o MC, the Board of Governors plus the Fed
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  Speaker 1: Bank President should be cut back. I think he wants
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of the board, have fewer Fedbank presidents,
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  Speaker 1: to have more transparency. It's a good idea. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just step back. There's an enormous number of proposals put
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  Speaker 1: out there right now, and Peters is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's worth thinking about, and that reflects
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  Speaker 1: the fact that policy is not working so well and
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  Speaker 1: there's some problems, and there's legislation in Congress to actually
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  Speaker 1: make some changes. I think some of that legislation's promising,
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  Speaker 1: maybe more promising than what Peter is referring to what
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  Speaker 1: we discussed it and that really requires the FED to
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  Speaker 1: simply report it strategy, to simply say what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: as clearly as they can. I think that would be
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  Speaker 1: uge improvement. John Taylor, thank you so very much, joining
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  Speaker 1: us here at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on
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  Speaker 1: the eve of his third annual Monetary Policy conference. This
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  Speaker 1: year it's International Monetary Stability, Past, Present and Future. We're
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  Speaker 1: speaking a lot more about the conference today and tomorrow.
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