Mary Waters on the integration of immigrants into the US
Our guest this week is Mary Waters, a Harvard sociologist who chaired the committee appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine to investigate the integration of immigrants into American society. She also edited the wonderfully detailed report published by the committee in September 2015. You can view a summary of the report here, and we’ll publish a transcript of the chat as soon as it’s ready. Enjoy!
At Jackson Hole, will Janet Yellen contradict… Janet Yellen?
Just more than three years ago, Janet Yellen gave the Michel Camdessus lecture at the IMF, titled Monetary Policy and Financial Stability. The thrust of the speech was that “monetary policy faces significant limitations as a tool to promote financial stability”. As Yellen summarised the point then:
