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Central Bank Independence : a speech at the 2015 Herbert Stein Memorial Lecture National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2015

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  • Stanley Fischer, 2015. "Central Bank Independence : a speech at the 2015 Herbert Stein Memorial Lecture National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2015," Speech 873, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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