1. Christopher J Waller is an American economist who has been a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2020.
14 Facts About Christopher Waller
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Christopher Waller was previously the research director of and an executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
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Christopher Waller spent his childhood in South Dakota and then Minnesota.
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Christopher Waller worked at Indiana University's Department of Economics from 1985 to 1998, where he was an associate professor, assistant professor and director of graduate studies.
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Christopher Waller was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and Washington University in St Louis from 1994 to 1995.
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Christopher Waller taught economics at the University of Kentucky from 1998 to 2003 and was a research fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, in Germany.
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Christopher Waller was Gilbert F Schaefer Chair of Economics at the University of Notre Dame from 2003 to 2011, on leave from 2009.
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Christopher Waller joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis as research director in 2009.
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Christopher Waller fostered a close partnership with the department of economics at Washington University in St Louis.
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Christopher Waller was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; chair of the Committee on Federal Reserve Bank Affairs and Oversight Governor for RBOPS ; and chair of the Committee on Clearing, Payments, and Settlement.
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Shortly before and after joining the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Christopher Waller was viewed as a monetary policy "dove", favoring expansionary policy and low interest rates.
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Christopher Waller worked closely with the St Louis Federal Reserve bank's president, James B Bullard, who was a vocal supporter of lower interest rates in 2019.
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Christopher Waller argued that the Fed should not raise rates at that time, when inflation was low and private savings were high.
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Christopher Waller has expressed skepticism about a central bank digital currency in the United States, saying that it is not clear what market failure in the US payments system it would resolve.