Minneapolis Fed’s Kashkari Calls for Stricter Lockdown

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Published Aug 09, 2020 05:00PM ET

Updated Aug 09, 2020 07:00PM ET

The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, who once claimed the Federal Reserve was flush with cash, called for a nationwide lockdown to fight COVID-19.

In an op-ed in The New York Times, Neel Kashkari and co-writer Michael T. Osterholm of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota said a more restrictive lockdown of up to six weeks is necessary to fight the virus and save the economy.

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