Valuetainment Economics, Released on 2/4/21

Economist Danielle DiMartino Booth sits down with former Macro economist and chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation. In this interview they talk about the role central banking has in the economy in downturns and upturns.

About the guest: William R. White is a Canadian economist who was the chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2009 to 2018. He is famous for flagging the wild behavior in the debt markets before the global storm hit in 2008.

Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO & Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, a research and analytics firm. She spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse, where she worked fixed income and the public and private equity markets. Danielle earned her BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.