<![CDATA[Podcasts - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond]]> https://www.richmondfed.org/podcasts en-us Feeds from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond <![CDATA[Podcasts - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond]]> <![CDATA[How Much Women Work: Taxes and Social Security Matter]]> Mariacristina De Nardi of the University of Minnesota discusses her research on the effects of tax policy and Social Security benefits on women's labor supply.

]]> <![CDATA[Rural Spotlight: Bringing Broadband to Maryland’s Eastern Shore]]> Tim McGaha of Choptank Electric Cooperative offers his perspective on the company's program to bring broadband Internet to rural communities in Maryland.

]]> <![CDATA[Wage, Income and Wealth Inequality in America]]> This episode shares part of a 2019 presentation by Laura Ullrich about wage, income and wealth inequality, an issue that was brought into focus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

]]> <![CDATA[The Role of Immigration in Labor Markets]]> Nicolas Morales discusses his research and other work done on the interplay between immigrants and native-born workers in labor markets and how immigration can contribute to U.S. productivity.

]]> <![CDATA[Getting People Back to Work in West Virginia]]> Andy Bauer discusses West Virginia’s progress in recovering from the economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bauer is a regional executive at the Baltimore branch of the Richmond Fed.


 
]]> <![CDATA[Breaking Down the Barriers to Broadband Access]]> Alex Marré of the Richmond Fed and Anna Read from Pew Charitable Trusts discuss maximizing broadband resources and preview the Broadband Summit on June 8.

]]> <![CDATA[The Critical Role of HBCUs in Higher Education]]> Laura Ullrich shares her insights on historically black colleges and universities and their role in workforce development and the economy in general. Ullrich has spoken to presidents and administrators at HBCUs throughout the Fifth District as part of her research on the higher education sector. She is a regional economist based at the Charlotte branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Jail: The Economic Consequences of Incarceration]]> Millions of Americans face diminished earnings and employment prospects years after they have spent time in prison. Grey Gordon and Urvi Neelakantan share their insights on this issue, which they have recently examined along with several colleagues at the Richmond Fed. Gordon is a senior economist and Neelakantan is senior policy economist.

]]> <![CDATA[The Economics of Aging in America]]> John Bailey Jones discusses his work on medical spending of the elderly and other financial decisions that people make as they age. He also previews a conference on this topic that he is organizing in early May. Jones is vice president of microeconomic analysis at the Richmond Fed.

]]> <![CDATA[Financial Literacy: Preparing Students for the Future]]> For Financial Literacy Month, two teachers in South Carolina discuss how they help high school students learn about economics and personal finance. Will Chappell is from Early College High School in Conway and Sarah Ostergaard teaches at Irmo High School in Columbia. They belong to the Teacher Collaborative Committee, which supports the Richmond Fed's development and delivery of economic and financial education resources and programs.

]]> <![CDATA[The CFO Survey: A Window into the Past and the Future]]> Hear the latest results of the CFO Survey and learn more about what makes the survey unique from three members of the team that produces it each quarter. Sonya Waddell is a vice president and economist at the Richmond Fed. She manages the Regional and Community Analysis team within the Research Department. Brent Meyer is a policy adviser and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and leads the Bank's Economic Survey Research Center. John Graham is a finance professor at Duke University and is director of the CFO Survey.

]]> <![CDATA[Diversity in Economics and Central Banking]]> Arantxa Jarque discusses the importance of having diverse voices represented at the Federal Reserve and in the economics profession in general. She also describes what stands in the way of diversity and how to address these barriers. Jarque is a senior policy economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

]]> <![CDATA[The U.S. Welfare System: Does it Do the Job?]]> Claudia Macaluso describes why the United States has a welfare system, how it was designed, and how effective it is at combating poverty, especially during recessions and the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Macaluso is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

]]> <![CDATA[Tracking the Economy in Real Time]]> Three economists discuss how they have used high-frequency datasets to track the health of the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic — Marios Karabarbounis and Nicholas Trachter of the Richmond Fed and Adam Blandin of Virginia Commonwealth University. Karabarbounis and Trachter compile the Pandemic Pulse, while Blandin runs the Real Time Population Survey with Alexander Bick of Arizona State University.

]]> <![CDATA[Tackling the Eviction Problem During the Pandemic]]> Bernie Mazyck and Mark Fessler discuss the ongoing issues of renters being evicted at high numbers in certain parts of our country, as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to make this problem worse. Mazyck is the founder, president and CEO of the South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development and is a member of the Richmond Fed's board of directors. Fessler is an attorney at South Carolina Legal Services who specializes in foreclosure and consumer law.

]]> <![CDATA[The K-Shaped Recovery in Maryland]]> Andy Bauer provides an update on economic conditions in Maryland as the state recovers from the severe downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Bauer is vice president and regional executive for the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

]]> <![CDATA[Unequal Access to Child Care]]> Kartik Athreya, executive vice president and director of research, shares his experiences on the Back to Work Virginia Task Force, which was formed last April to develop policies and practices to strengthen the state's child care industry. Athreya also discusses the economic impact of unequal access to child care.

]]> <![CDATA[Looking Back at 2020 in the Fifth District]]> Ann Macheras offers her perspective on the state of the economy in the Fifth Federal Reserve District, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, most of West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Macheras is a group vice president at the Richmond Fed, with responsibility for microeconomics and research communications.

]]> <![CDATA[Taxing Carbon: A Macroeconomist's View]]> James Stock, a professor of political economy at Harvard University, discusses his research on the effects of carbon taxes in the European Union and its implications for enacting similar taxes in the United States. Stock presented this research at the Climate Change Economics conference organized by the Richmond Fed in November 2020.

]]> <![CDATA[The Benefits Cliff: Keeping Working Families From Falling Off the Edge]]> Tiffany Hollin-Wright and Erika Bell provide an overview of the benefits cliff, which can occur when workers who receive public assistance from the government earn a raise and then discover they make too much money to continue receiving help. They also discuss how the Richmond Fed's Community Development team and its collaborators are addressing this challenge.

]]> <![CDATA[Teaching Economics and Personal Finance]]> Sarah Gunn and David Bass discuss economic and financial literacy and the role of the Federal Reserve in educating teachers, students and the general public about these topics.

]]> <![CDATA[A Look at the Carolinas Economy]]> Matt Martin provides his take on this rather tumultuous year and how it has impacted economic conditions in North Carolina and South Carolina. Martin is vice president and regional executive based at the Richmond Fed's Charlotte office.

]]> <![CDATA[Closing the Digital Divide]]> Alex Marré discusses the ongoing challenges of bringing broadband Internet service to everyone who needs it. Marre is a regional economist based at the Richmond Fed's branch office in Baltimore.

]]> <![CDATA[Why Economists Care about Climate Change]]> Toan Phan talks about his research on the effects of climate change on economic growth, the work of other researchers who have studied climate change economics, and the conference he is organizing on this important, multi-faceted topic. Phan is a senior economist in the Research Department of the Richmond Fed.

]]> <![CDATA[COVID-19 and the Classroom]]> Santiago Pinto discusses the potential long-term consequences of disruptions to K-12 education as a result of spending cuts and school closings associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Pinto is a senior policy economist in the Research Department of the Richmond Fed.

]]> <![CDATA[A Look at the Virginia Economy]]> Renee Haltom shares what she has been hearing about Virginia's economy this year, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

]]> <![CDATA[Combating COVID-19 and Systemic Inequalities]]> Tiffany Hollin-Wright discusses the work being done by Community Development staff at the Richmond Fed and in the Federal Reserve to respond to current health and economic crises, in particular their disproportionate impact on communities of color.

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