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Episode: Insights: The Wall Street Journal's Nick Timiraos on his new book, "Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic–and Prevented Economic Disaster"
Description: In today's episode of HPS Insights, HPS Partner Matt McDonald interviews Wall Street Journal Chief Economics Correspondent Nick Timiraos on his new book, "Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic–and Prevented Economic Disaster." In the episode, Nick explains how he used his reporting during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive interviews to write a book detailing how the Federal Reserve handled COVID-19 and the related economic tribulations.Through the lens of the book, Nick and Matt compare the economy in March 2020 to the financial crisis of 2008 an...