MNI FedSpeak Podcast

Former finance minister adviser Robert Asselin discusses inflation pressures on fiscal and monetary policy.

A fragile financial system presents risks to the Federal Reserve's ability to raise interest rates enough to bring down inflation, says former Officer of Financial Research Director Richard Berner.

Thorsten Koeppl, a Queen's University economics professor and Bank of Canada research award winner, discusses how to handle coming losses on the central bank's bond purchase program and a potential further slowdown in interest-rate hikes.

The Bank of England may need to hike interest rates as high as 6% despite a looming UK recession, ex-MPC member Willem Buiter tells MNI. 

​The Fed's aggressive push to raise interest rates in the face of 40-year high inflation risks an overtightening of monetary conditions that could send the economy into recession, says Jeff Fuhrer, a former senior policy advisor at the Boston Fed.

Canadian trade finance bank EDC chief economist Stuart Bergman discusses why the global economy can cycle through next year without a recession if policymakers avoid hitting any pebbles.

Olivier Blanchard, the former IMF chief economist, sees only a narrow path to avoiding recession as the Fed will have to keep hiking rates to deal with high and stubborn inflation pressures.

Atlanta Fed economist Brent Meyer tells MNI it's no surprise the September CPI report showed persistently high inflation and that it will likely be months if not another year before inflation responds to rising interest rates.

Toronto Centre President Babak Abbaszadeh discusses training Ukraine’s central bankers on crisis management and helping supervisors worldwide improve policy coordination through the pandemic.

San Francisco Fed economist Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau tells MNI the Fed is seeing an orderly slowdown in the labor market, with job openings peaking for a number of sectors and quits rates falling without layoffs taking off. We also discuss labor participation.