Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-s-so-funny-about-making-monetary-policy Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story From the Humor Session at this year’s American Economic Association convention, American University economist Kevin Capehart gives a comedic talk which is actually based off of an academic paper in which Capehart sifts through minutes of Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meetings to answer the question: Who’s funnier, inflation “hawks” or “doves"?