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Mickey D. Levy is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and is a long-standing member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He has spent most of his career conducting economic research in the financial sector, including a lengthy role as chief economist at Bank of America. His research focuses on monetary and fiscal policies and how they influence economic and financial market behavior.

Levy has conducted research on various aspects of modern monetary and fiscal policies. His earliest research was on the Federal Reserve’s debt monetization. He has also published numerous papers on the evolution of monetary and fiscal policies and how policymakers have adjusted their inflation and budget deficits targets.

His more recent research, conducted independently and in collaboration with other Hoover fellows and Shadow Open Market Committee colleagues, has analyzed the history of budget deficits and inflation; the Fed’s projections of the economy and inflation and how the Fed responds to deviations from its projections; cyclical patterns of the Fed’s monetary policy; the evolution of the Fed’s dual mandate, including the Fed’s misguided strategic plan of 2020; how the Fed’s projections during the COVID-19 pandemic led to policy mistakes; and the impact of tariffs on monetary policy. Levy’s fiscal policy research has emphasized the allocative effects of the changing composition of government spending and how they influence longer-run potential growth.

In addition to his published research, Levy has frequently testified before the US Congress on macroeconomic issues, banking, economic and inflation conditions, and global trade. He is a frequent contributor to articles in The Wall Street Journal and he is cited in the media. He earned a PhD in economics at the University of Maryland and a MPP at University of California, Berkeley.

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