How has Jay Powell performed as Fed Chair during the Trump administration? How good has the Fed's response been to the 2020 COVID recession? Karl Smith and Josh Barro join the show to talk all things Jay Powell and Federal Reserve, including whether the Fed should have an expanded toolkit and why it's important to keep Judy Shelton off the Fed's Board of Governors.

Further reading: Josh's profile of Jay Powell - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jerome-powell-federal-reserve-profile.html

Follow Josh and Karl at https://twitter.com/karlbykarlsmith and https://twitter.com/jbarro

To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider community Slack. Become a supporter today!

Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to [email protected]

Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.facebook.com/groups/1930401007051265/ Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/chapters