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Not that relevant as the shock is slump in demand. Printing more money etc makes it cheaper to buy things but people are still not buying so oil etc is in a free fall. Traditional interest rate based intervention doesn’t make sense you are just adding even more money available to a system that doesn’t want to spend it. Instead it needs to be targeted intervention that transitions the economy to the new reality and measures something different than quarterly gdp.



They're talking about actions taken before the pandemic.

We kept rates low and gave big tax cuts during boom times. This left little in our quiver for the end of the boom.




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