Killer Mike is Rebuilding on Rubble with His Own Bank
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This week, Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike, the Grammy-winning rapper of the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels, joined to talk about the launch of his digital bank Greenwood. Karl Smith, co-founder of the blog Modeled Behavior, came on to talk about why he thinks Joe Biden is the one to break the impasse in stimulus talks. Former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm explained why she thinks the last real chance for further fiscal relief has already been missed and why the Federal Reserve needs to figure out how to do more to help the economy without Congress. Then Martha Gimbel, senior manager of economic research at Schmidt Futures, joined to talk about the long-term structural changes to the labor market as more workers work from home. 
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