Patrick Harker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a former Wharton dean, joins Mukul Pandya of Knowledge at Wharton to discuss the July 2019 decrease of the Federal Interest Rate and the current state of the US economy in this special podcast.

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