Will The Fed Step In Where Congress Won’t To Help Struggling Americans? Dean Baker Joins

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Follow on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/actdottv Julianna welcomes back recurring guest Dean Baker, Macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss how now that it’s become clear our lawmakers are completely useless when it comes to helping ordinary Americans get through this crisis, there are some who are hoping we can get economic relief another way: through the Fed. Economists and activists are calling for the Fed to use a method called Quantitative Easing, or QE for short. Dean Baker co-founded The Center for Economic and Policy Research in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How

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