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US leaders should approach current economic issues like a VC investor would, according to an economist from Chicago Booth

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The professor who used to teach a course called Analytics of Financial Crises, says you have to determine if the businesses you are trying to help are dealing with liquidity or solvency problems. And at the beginning of this crisis, he says, most businesses were dealing with liquidity problems which means they were worth saving.

Kashyap says that you don't want to look at the stock market as a guide for the economy. He says, "I don't understand the stock market. I didn't sell anything. I didn't buy anything. I just left it there."Anil Kashyap is a professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also an external member of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee and works as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

I took your class a decade ago at the tail end of the Great Recession, which was caused by a financial crisis. Now we're in a recession that was caused by a pandemic. How does that difference change the rules for government response?Well, first, thanks for having me. Great to see you. I guess the biggest thing is because of the public health crisis, a lot of the usual toolkit that you might deploy kind of goes backward.

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