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

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