"I still think Keynesian economics is extremely important, and if anybody didn’t think so, this crisis should have made them rethink."
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Stanley Fischer, quoted in Dylan Matthews, "Stan Fischer saved Israel’s economy. Can he save America’s?", washingtonpost.com, 2013/02/15
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Stanley Fischer
(Hebrew: סטנלי פישר; October 15, 1943 – May 31, 2025) was an economist and the vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), he held dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He served as governor of the from 2005 to 2013. He previously served as chief economist at the .
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