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The 5 30 news begins right now. It begins with the weather alert, again, and a wintry mix for driving home. Topper has the details. Im looking to see if it is sleet or plain old rain. It is plain old rain in the metronorth west and we have a Winter Weather advisory until about 9 00. Most of the metro area was covered. Temperatures right now are above freezing and the spots south of town, for waldorf, you can see that even if it is hovering around 33, you would still get some icing on the trees because it has been so cold the last few days. Some of the birds have not been freezing in 12 consecu...

For a conversation on Monetary Policy and the possibility of inflation in the u. S. Economy. Former Federal Reserve chair bernanke and Larry Summers speaking. Live coverage just getting underway. Will undoubted lly weighing. Thats the fun. We think that the question of rethinking the two Percent Inflation target is one of the most important questions facing Monetary Policy makers at the moment. You might say the backward looking question that we need to think about which we are thinking about is how did unconventional policy really work and should unconventional policy really be considered con...

Monetary policy. This is part of a conference on inflation hosted by the Brookings Institution center on fiscal and Monetary Policy. Its about an hour. And then were going to move to the next segment, which is really important, because it seems to me that theres a question not only about what we should do, but how we should get there. And it may that be we have something to learn from the canadian experience. So i want to introduce john david murray, who was, for 32 years at bank of canada, 32 or 34, john . 4 years at the bank of canada. Last four as deputy governor. He retired three years ago...

So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his...

What we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper ch...