Austan Goolsbee, Former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, testifies before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill February 28, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Austan Goolsbee was chair of Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers after the financial crash of 2008, and then became a professor at the University of Chicago, and in 2022, became the President of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which we assume means he is charge of finally winning the war with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. We thought it would be a great time to hear from somebody who can tell us what’s going on, so by the end of this interview, we’ll all be rich…RIGHT?
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This week, special guest Austan Goolsbee joins panelists Peter Grosz, Rachel Koster, and Shane O’Neill
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