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Tyler Cowen: belief

25 Jun 2025 Conversations with Tyler Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog

“The real sector of the economy, and that’s not FDIC insured, and a lot of that is, in fact, runs-prone, as we learned in 2008, so you’ve just got to be hyper, super nervous.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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25 Jun 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…It’s that low. The real sector of the economy, and that’s not FDIC insured, and a lot of that is, in fact, runs-prone, as we learned in 2008, so you’ve just got to be hyper, super nervous. Yes. Look, that’s the very essence of financial stability. The conundrum of financial stability that we face as a society and as central banks around the world are exactly this — that there is an official banking sector that we have oversight of. Then there’s a shadow banking sector, which is getting bigger and bigger every year and can be prone to runs, and that runs. What is the role of a central bank as a lender of last resort in an environment where it doesn’t play?…

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