
Recession Remedies is a podcast about the economic policy response to COVID-19 and the lessons it holds for future recessions. On each episode, expert guests join host David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, to evaluate a different aspect of the fiscal and monetary response.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Categories | NewsPolitics | ||||

The final episode of the Recession Remedies podcast sums up lessons learned from the COVID-19 downturn and looks ahead. How does rising inflation factor in to the assessment of the economic policy response? What lessons should, and should not, be tak... more
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To protect against the economic effects of the pandemic, the federal government borrowed more than $5 trillion—about 20% of one year's output—in 2020 and 2021. Now, in 2022, the Federal Reserve is attempting to tamp down inflation. What lessons shoul... more
Economic shocks can have outsized effects on children, interrupting their growth and development. How well did policy buffer households with children from the economic consequences of the COVID-19 downturn? How did changes in areas like childcare, fo... more
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The first episode was very helpful. I’m delighted by how educational I found it to be. This is the quality that I’d expect from the Brookings Institute. I would be very interested in more programming of this quality from Brooking. “The Current is good”, “Dollar and Sense” is good, but too often directionless, “Tech Tank” is just awful (zero stars), but I have a lot of hope for the format of this “Recession Remedies”!
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