Barry Eichengreen: "Biden's COVID-19 stimulus was excessive and contributed to today's inflation."

Prague Finance Institute March 19, 2023
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Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). Professor Eichengreen is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials and chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. Leoš Rousek, the Head Of Corporate Communications at PPF Group (https://www.ppf.eu/en) and contributor of PFI Talks, talked with Professor Eichengreen. You can find the video with Czech subtitles and the article on the E15 website: https://www.e15.cz/videoporady/pfi-talks/usa-jsou-platebni-neschopnosti-bliz-nez-pred-deseti-lety-mysli-si-ekonom-barry-eichengreen-1397091