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Learn more at Bloomberg New Economy.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast, I'm Tracy Allaway.

So, Tracy Allaway.

So Tracy, we talk a lot about monetary policy on the podcast. We talk a lot about

central banking, what the future of central banking looks like in the post-crisis

era, but for all we talk about it, it's like probably keep, we never talk about it enough. There's always more to discuss.

Well, I feel like this is one of the big themes of 2020, right? So we've had this economic crisis and we've seen various responses to it from

Central Banks and we've seen various government responses to it as well and now we're

sort of waiting to see what the combination of those two things actually looks like and how monetary policy interacts with fiscal policy.

I feel like that's the thing we're all watching, right?

Yeah, I think that's fair to say.

And I think, you know, and again, this is sort of for people who've

listened to several episodes.

It's at this point is a retread, but I always think it's important that a lot of these

debates were happening already going into this crisis about the sort of

limit to monetary policy even in recent years whether Central Bankers needed new tools, whether there needs to be a greater

emphasis on fiscal policy and so forth to accelerate growth.

These were already big debates that were happening pre-crisis and like many other things, this crisis has really accelerated them.

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