Interviewer: “Let’s talk about when you left the Fed.”
Blinder: “Fleeing the Fed, as John Cassidy put it” 🏃
A: “One that the typical smart-ass youngster - full of himself after getting a PhD at a good university - I’ll get over there and straighten them out.” oh + 2hrs🏓 federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fi…

IF division sometimes had trouble getting R&S staff to engage with foreign counterparts. p74-79 federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fi…
Pretty wild process to get those Bluebooks edited, printed, and in the FOMC members’ hands! p7-8, 13-19. federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fi…




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“There was to be no forward looking because that didn’t make sense.” federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fi…

A few final thoughts:
(i) Some of my favorite job Fed job titles: Father of the Bluebook Vehicle 🚙 Fed Prince 👑 Person in a White Lab Coat 👩🏻🔬
(ii) I wasn’t perfect at citations, find linked a single pdf with all of the interviews combined if you need to ctrl-f anything.
(iii) dms are always open if you have questions or just want to connect.
drive.google.com/file/d/1dlBxxd…
(v) I wish they’d publish the audio - even if parts have to be edited out because the interviewees changed the transcript in post.
Done done done 🎉