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# *EconTalk* LIVE: David Beckworth on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession 

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May 19, 2016 11 AM - 12:30 PM EDT 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **David Beckworth**, Assistant Professor, Economics, Western Kentucky University; Visiting Scholar, Mercatus Center; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; interviewed by **Russ Roberts**, Host, *EconTalk*; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution’s Washington branch. 

The Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is pleased to announce another installment of its “live” edition of *EconTalk*. Join Russ Roberts as he interviews David Beckworth, the author of *Boom and Bust Banking: The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession* and of the widely read Market Monetarist blog, *Macro and Other Market Musings*, on the part that the Federal Reserve and other central banks played (and the part they ought to have played) in the Great Recession.

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