48 - Princeton University’s Jessica Metcalf, Alan Blinder & Bill Dudley: “COVID-19: Fiscal, monetary and health policy responses"

On April 2nd, A Second Opinion joined with the Princeton University Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies and the Center for Health and Wellbeing to host a virtual COVID-19 discussion on the “fiscal, monetary and health policy responses and implications for the economic outlook.”

I was joined by Jessica Metcalf, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs, an expert in disease modeling, vaccination programs, and the challenges of disease elimination. Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and economic advisor to President Clinton. And Bill Dudley, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now Senior Research Scholar at the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies.

In this wide-ranging discussion, we covered the projected economic impacts of COVID-19, what the Federal Reserve can hope to achieve with its toolkit, and what the disease models are telling us.