August 9, 2021· 52 min
Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on the Economy and Monetary Policy Right Now
Orality
Model
65%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(2,011 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,184 words)
M:28%
GuestRob Kaplan(4,832 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic27%
literally, completely, obviously
Engagement77%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
think (78x), about (57x), what (49x)
Parallelism95%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And, of course, as you sort of..., So I think I called it the cho...
Sound Patterns40%
35 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases5%
i mean, so to speak
Literate Indicators
Hedging14%
could, appears, suggests
Passive Voice9%
being produced, being debated, are uncharted
Abstract Nouns21%
investment, recommendation, moment
Subordination9%
though, since, because
Sentence Length51%
Avg: 17.8 words/sentence
Word Complexity50%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style23%
669 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, really
Description
The economy is in uncharted territory in more ways that one right now. Coming out of the worst of the pandemic, we're seeing a rapid pace of GDP growth, along with elevated inflation readings the likes of which we haven't seen in years. Beyond that, policymakers have engaged in historically aggressive fiscal and monetary expansion. The Fed, in particular, is almost a year into a new framework (unveiled last August at Jackson Hole) that aims to avoid certain mistakes of the past. So we sat down with Rob Kaplan, who has been the President of the Dallas Fed since 2015, to get his assessment of the situation right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.