Ep. 1252: Scott Fulford Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Scott Fulford, a senior economist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where he led the development of the Making Ends Meet Survey. He has represented the U.S. at the OECD, and he regularly speaks at the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve banks, the OCC, the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the FDIC, the NBER, and universities.

The topic is his book The Pandemic Paradox: How the COVID Crisis Made Americans More Financially Secure.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Economic growth and decline during the pandemic
• Government intervention and financial support
• Inflation and its causes
• Potential economic bubble
• Counterfactuals in pandemic response
• Impact on stock market and employment
• The potential for a better, fairer and more productive economy

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