About the fed in recent, whether helping to stave off total economic collapse during the 28 financial meltdown or countering the shocks of the covid 19 pandemic or most struggling to lower. As gina makes clear in her new book, these crises along with the actions of some pivotal central bankers like, the current fed chairman, jay powell, have fundamentally changed the feds purpose and function in american society. The fed has taken its Emergency Powers to new, gina writes, stretching its mission as lender of last resort and purchasing backed debt in massive sums. Its gone from insisting that social issues are not in its domain to flying pride, flags and shaping conversations about racial, gender and, geographic inequity with research and expert advice. Fed officials often talk about staying in their lane, but lane, gina observes, has into an avenue. Gina is very well positioned to tell the story of the feds extended and its and its vast influence. Shes been covering the fed and economic
Political sociology, which i feel like thats plum line running through your work because, even when you are writing biography, be like your outstanding book. Yeltsin it really is more about the culture, sociology of russia thats producing these of leaders. So with that, tell us about particular political sociology. Well, thank you very much for being here, finding the time to be here and also for all your support while i was i was writing this book. It is not only my pleasure, its my actual job. Well, its its i think each of chapters of this book could be could be a separate book. But i wanted to give the readers. A kind of a but memorable tour of the house that putin built. And and, you know, if you think of the key concepts, ideas ideas, the policies as as colorful tiles, i tried to line them up and then cohere them in in a in a in a portrait and speaking of which, there are about two dozen photos that were to show you some of the two dozen photos as we go along. The people who know
Remarkable that i could certainly, i think, speak for both of us. We felt privileged to be able to tell those stories. So i would have one thing and i know we probably have to get out of here soon, but the sand tom mentioned in the men we write about and its all men because of the wars the grit in my almost two decades downrange in hellholes around the world, i see the same and the same grit in the men and now women who are fighting for us today and have fought for us since 2001. And we should all be very proud of that. So i guess that ends it. So thank you very much. Welcome to International Security studies at Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Im ted whittenstein and i want to extend the special welcome to some of our zoom participants as well as cspan folks tuning in. Its wonderful to magnify the reach of everything exciting. Were doing here on the yale campus which of course includes professor kennedys wonderful new book victory at sea naval power and the trans
In the late 1970s as a refugee from russia. He also did his undergraduate at moscow state university, but slumming it at columbia for his graduate work, which is in political sociology, which i feel like thats plum line running through your work because, even when you are writing biography, be like your outstanding book. Yeltsin it really is more about the culture, sociology of russia thats producing these of leaders. So with that, tell us about particular political sociology. Well, thank you very much for being here, finding the time to be here and also for all your support while i was i was writing this book. It is not only my pleasure, its my actual job. Well, its its i think each of chapters of this book could be could be a separate book. But i wanted to give the readers. A kind of a but memorable tour of the house that putin built. And and, you know, if you think of the key concepts, ideas ideas, the policies as as colorful tiles, i tried to line them up and then cohere them in in
Us this evening journalist gina. Here to talk about her very timely and informative new book limitless. The Federal Reserve takes on a new age of crisis. Now weve all been hearing a lot about the fed in recent, whether helping to stave off total economic collapse during the 28 financial meltdown or countering the shocks of the covid 19 pandemic or most struggling to lower. As gina makes clear in her new book, these crises along with the actions of some pivotal central bankers like, the current fed chairman, jay powell, have fundamentally changed the feds purpose and function in american society. The fed has taken its Emergency Powers to new, gina writes, stretching its mission as lender of last resort and purchasing backed debt in massive sums. Its gone from insisting that social issues are not in its domain to flying pride, flags and shaping conversations about racial, gender and, geographic inequity with research and expert advice. Fed officials often talk about staying in their lane