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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan. (Kenneth Lambert - AP)
Live Discussions Transcript: Alice Rivlin, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former vice chair at the Federal Reserve Board, talked about the board's June decision on interest rates, the budget deficit and the economic outlook. Transcript: Lee Price, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, was online to discuss interest rates following the June Fed decision.
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