Macro Musings with David Beckworth
Episodes
Thorvald Grung Moe on the Life of Marriner Eccles and His Lasting Macroeconomic Legacy
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thorvald Grung Moe is a 30 year veteran is of the Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, and has also worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, t...
Carolyn Sissoko on the Collateral Supply Effect and Other Concerns in the Money Market
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carolyn Sissoko is an associate professor of economics at the University of the West of England, and she has written widely on shadow banking, money m...
Robin Harding on Abenomics and the 'Japanification' of Monetary Policy
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Harding is the Tokyo Bureau chief for the Financial Times. Until 2015, he was based in Washington D.C., covering the U.S. Federal Reserve, the T...
George Selgin on Average Inflation Targeting and *The Menace of Fiscal QE*
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and is a returning guest to Macro Musings. He joi...
BONUS: Employ America's Webcast Panel on the Federal Reserve's Updated Framework and Its Implications for Monetary Policy
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Macro Musings is back with another bonus episode, as Sam Bell and Skanda Amarnath (Employ America) are joined by Julia Coronado (Macro Policy Perspect...
Scott Lincicome on the China Shock, Trade Policy, and US Labor Markets
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Lincicome is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Cato Institute where he writes on international and domestic economic issues, including inte...
Jim Tankersley on the State of the Middle Class and How to Boost Economic Growth
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Tankersley is a tax and economics reporter for the New York Times and has written a new book on the middle class titled, *The Riches of This Land:...
Vincent Grossmann-Wirth on the ECB in a Post-COVID Economy
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Grossmann-Wirth is the Deputy Head of Monetary Policy Implementation Division at the Banque de France. Vincent joins Macro Musings to discuss ...
David Schleicher on the Municipal Trilemma and its Implications for the Current Crisis
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Schleicher is a professor at Yale Law School, and as a returning guest to Macro Musings, he joins to talk about the historical role that the fed...
Jon Sindreu on Global Financial Flows and the Balance of Trade
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Sindreu is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal where he covers financial markets and the global transportation industry for the Heard on the St...
David Beckworth on Nominal GDP Targeting in the Wake of the COVID-19 Crisis
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Macro Musings episode, David is back in the spotlight, as he is interviewed by Claudia Sahm, director of macroeconomic policy at the W...
Bill Nelson on the Fed's Policy Tools in the Post-COVID Economy
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Nelson is a Chief Economist and Executive Vice President at the Bank Policy Institute, and formerly a Deputy Director of the Division of Monetary...
Jens Van't Klooster on ECB Bond Purchasing and the Myth of Central Bank Neutrality
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jens Van't Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at ...
Matthew Klein on Global Trade, Inequality, and International Conflict
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Klein is an economics commentator at Barron's and is the author of a new book with Michael Pettis titled, *Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Risi...
Stephen Kirchner on Australian Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Kirchner is a program director for trade and investment at the United States Center at the University of Sydney, and he was written widely on ...
Daniela Gabor on Financial Globalization, Capital Controls, and the Critical Macrofinance Framework
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniela Gabor is a professor of economics and macrofinance at the University of West England at Bristol, where she works on shadow banking, capital ma...
Darrell Duffie on Treasury Markets and the Post-COVID Path to Financial Stability
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell Duffie is a professor of finance at Stanford University, and he joins Macro Musings to discuss the treasury market problems that emerged in Ma...
Peter Stella on the Fed's Off-Balance Sheet Transactions and Public Financing of the COVID-19 Crisis
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Stella is a former IMF official, where he led the Central Banking and Monetary and Foreign Exchange divisions, and he now hosts a webpage titled...
Adam Tooze on Dollar Dominance, the Eurozone, and the Future of Global Finance
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University, and is the author of many books, including his popular account of the 2007-2009 crisis, t...
Alp Simsek on a Risk-Centric View of Demand, Recession, and Speculation
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alp Simsek is an associate professor of economics at MIT, and joins Macro Musings to talk about the link between financial markets, uncertainty and th...
Thomas Hoenig on Bank Capitalization and Fed Policy after COVID-19
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Hoenig is a former vice chair of the FDIC, former president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, and is currently a distinguished senior fe...
Scott Sumner on the Government's Response to COVID-19 and the Future of Level Targeting
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Professor Emeritus of economics at Be...
Lev Menand on the Fed's Lending Facilities and the Legal Concerns Surrounding Them
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lev Menand is a legal scholar at Columbia Law School and has previously worked for the New York Fed, the US Treasury Department, and the Financial Sta...
Martin Hellwig on the Recent German Constitutional Court Ruling and Its Potential Eurozone Implications
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Hellwig is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and he joins Macro Musings to talk about the Eurozone and...
Nathan Tankus on Public Finance in the COVID-19 Crisis: A Consolidated Budget Balance View and its Implications for Policy
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Tankus is the director of research at the Modern Money Network, and a research fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Natha...
Anat Admati on the Perils of Corporate Debt and How COVID-19 Relief Efforts Have Gone Wrong
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anat Admati is a professor of finance and economics at Stanford University, and is well-known for her work on leveraging debt in our financial system ...
Kathryn Judge on the CARES Act and the Political Implications of Relief Efforts
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, the editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, and an expert on...
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on Central Bank Digital Currency and the Current Economic Responses to COVID-19
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Re...
George Selgin on the Fed-Treasury Relationship, New Lending Facilities, and the Fed's Evolving Role in Response to COVID-19
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is the Director of the Cato Institute Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and a returning guest to Macro Musings. He joins Da...
Mehrsa Baradaran on How COVID-19 is Exposing Existing Societal Wealth Gaps and Financial Access Challenges
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California Irvine and researches banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the rac...
Nicholas Bloom on Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in the Short-run and Long-run
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a leading scholar on management, productivity, innovation and economic uncertain...
Brad Setser on Addressing the Global Dollar Shortage and COVID-19's Implications for Worldwide Trade Imbalances
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Setser is a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he works on macroeconomics, global capital flows...
Alex Tabarrok on COVID-19 Response Efforts, Proposals for Continued Recovery, and Lessons for the Future
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Alex joins David Beckworth on the p...
Ashoka Mody on COVID-19's Impacts on Global Trade, Credit Markets and the Broader Eurozone
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ashoka Mody is a professor of international economic policy at Princeton University, has formerly worked at the IMF and the World Bank, and is a retur...
Peter Conti-Brown on the CARES Act and the Expanding Fed-Treasury Relationship in Response to COVID-19
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Conti-Brown – a legal scholar and financial historian at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies a...
Skanda Amarnath, Yakov Feygin, and Elizabeth Pancotti on Municipal Bond Market Intervention and the CARES Act as Responses to COVID-19
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Skanda Amarnath is the Director of Research and Analysis at Employ America, Yakov Feygin is the Associate Director of the Future of Capitalism program...
Jim Bianco on Policy Responses to the Coronavirus: Details, Implications, and Concerns Moving Forward
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Bianco, of Bianco Research, joins Macro Musings to discuss the latest on the economic impact from the coronavirus. David and Jim discuss the detai...
Robin Brooks on COVID-19's Impact on Emerging Markets and the Domestic Policy Response to the Crisis
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Brooks is a chief economist at the Institute of International Finance and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the IMF. Robin joins Macro...
Stan Veuger on Helping Businesses Survive in the Post-Coronavirus Economy
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Veuger is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he specializes in political economy and public finance. Stan joins us tod...
Claudia Sahm on Direct Payments to Individuals and Other Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Claudia Sahm is the Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and formerly was a section chief at the Board of Go...
James Sweeney on the Money View Framework and COVID-19's Implications for the Macro Economy
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Sweeney is the chief economist at Credit Suisse and joins us today as a part of our ongoing special coverage to talk about the coronavirus or CO...
Megan Greene on How to Use Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Fight the Coronavirus Crisis
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Greene is a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School and a senior fellow in international economics at Chatham House. Formerly, Mega...
Ben Moll on the Basics of HANK Models and How They Can Be Applied to Policymaking
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Moll is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, and is well known for his work on income and wealth distribution in macroecono...
Scott Sumner on How Central Banks Should Respond to the Coronavirus Threat
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a returning guest to Macro Musing...
Paul Schmelzing on the 'Suprasecular' Decline of Global Real Interest Rates
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Schmelzing is an economic historian, a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and a postdoc at the Yale University School of Management. Paul ha...
Ernie Tedeschi on Output Gaps, Labor Markets, and the State of the Economy
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ernie Tedeschi is a policy economist and the head of fiscal analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He is also an occasional contributor to T...
Brent Skorup on Autonomous Vehicles, Flying Cars, and Airspace as a Scarce Resource
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Skorup is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center where he specializes in transportation technology, telecommunications, aviation, and w...
Marc Lavoie on Canadian Central Bank Policy, Real-time Payments, and the Post-Keynesian Tradition
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Lavoie is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and an author a recent article on the Bank of Canada's operating system. Marc is a...
Joseph Gagnon on Central Banks' Ability to Fight the Next Recession
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Gagnon is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and formerly, a senior staffer at the Federal Reserve Board of ...
Macro Musings Producers' Special – A Recap of 2019 and a Glimpse into the Future
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To accompany the new year, David Beckworth is joined by the producers of Macro Musings, Marc and Carter, to talk about the highlights of the podcast t...
Eric Sims on New Keynesian Modelling and the Future of Macroeconomics in a Low Interest Rate Environment
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Sims is the chair of the economics department at the University of Notre Dame and is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Re...
Peter Conti-Brown on *Restoring the Promise of Federal Reserve Governance*
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Conti-Brown is an assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institut...
Josh Galper on the Current State of Repo Markets, Key Bottlenecks, and a Balanced Proposal to Restore Stability
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Galper is the managing principal of Finadium, an independent consultancy in capital markets based out of New York City. He joins the show today a...
George Selgin on Repo Market Stress, Fed Balance Sheet Volatility, and a Standing Repo Facility
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and is a returning guest to the Macro Musings pod...
RE-AIR: Robert Samuelson on Paul Volcker and the Great Inflation
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Samuelson is an economics columnist for the Washington Post and spent several decades working at Newsweek, where he wrote on various economic t...
Jim Bianco on Negative Interest Rates, Low Inflation, and Yield Curve Expansion
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Bianco is the president of Bianco Research, a provider of data-driven insights into the global economy and financial markets, and is also a column...
Claudia Sahm on the Sahm Rule and Using Big Data to Inform Policymaking
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Claudia Sahm is the director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and was formerly at the Board of Governors as a se...
Carola Binder on Political Pressure and the Twin Deficits of Central Banking
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carola Binder is an assistant professor of economics at Haverford College and is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Central Bank...
Binyamin Appelbaum on *The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society*
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, and he was previously a Washington corr...
George Selgin on the Past, Present, and Future of a Real-time Payments System
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and is a returning guest to the Macro Musings pod...
Henry Curr on Inflation, the Phillips Curve, and A New Monetarism
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Curr is the economics editor for The Economist magazine, and the author of a special report by the magazine on the phenomenon of low inflation n...
Diego Zuluaga on Libra, Real-time Payments, and the Legacy of the Community Reinvestment Act
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives where he covers financial technology and cons...
Frances Coppola on the Macroeconomics of Helicopter Drops
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Coppola is a former banker, financial writer, and an author of a recent book titled, *The Case for People's Quantitative Easing*, and she join...
David Beckworth on the Facts, Fears, and Functionality of NGDP Level Targeting
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Macro Musings, the roles are reversed, and David Beckworth joins guest host Cardiff Garcia, host of NPR's "The Indicator fr...
Srinivas Thiruvadanthai on the Sectoral Financial Balance Approach to Macroeconomics
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is a managing director and the director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. Sri joins the show today to talk ab...
Bill Nelson on the Repo Market Stress, the Fed's Operating System, and the Prospects for a Standing Repo Facility
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Nelson is a chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute and was previously a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal ...
Jim Dorn on the History of Monetary Policy in Washington D.C. and its Future
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Dorn is the Vice President for Monetary Studies at the Cato Institute and is the director of Cato's annual Monetary Policy Conference. Jim has wri...
Gregg Gelzinis on Reforming FSOC and How to Limit Future Financial Crises
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gregg Gelzinis is a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress where he focuses his work on financial institutions, financial markets, consume...
Soumaya Keynes on Trade, Dollar Dominance, and the Highlights of Jackson Hole
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes is the US economics editor for The Economist magazine, and she is also the co-host of *Trade Talks*, a podcast on all things trade, inc...
Alex Tabarrok on the Elements of Economic Growth and the Decline of Dynamism
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center. Alex h...
Judge Glock on the Riefler-Keynes Doctrine and Monetary Policy During the Great Depression
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Glock is an economic historian and a scholar at the Cicero Institute in San Francisco. Judge's research is focused on the Great Depression, and ...
Thomas Hoenig on the Federal Reserve and the State of Banking in the US
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Hoenig was vice-chair of the FDIC from 2012-2018 and in the 20 years prior to that he was also president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Ban...
Chris Crowe on Hedge Fund Perspectives and the Economic Implications of Brexit
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Crowe is head of economic research at Capula Investment Management, a London-based hedge fund, where he covers global economics, primarily the G...
Aaron Klein on Real-time Payments and Financial Regulation
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Klein is the director of the Center on Markets and Regulations at the Brookings Institution where, among other things, he focuses on financial r...
Bonus Episode – Watch Party for the Fed's Historic Interest Rate Cut
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode of Macro Musings, David Beckworth joins Employ America and several other monetary policy enthusiasts on the day of the J...
Evan Koenig on the Fed's Review Period, Monetary Regimes, and Yield Curves
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Koenig is a senior vice president and a principal policy advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas where he has been since 1988. Evan joins ...
Ulrich Bindseil on Central Bank Operating Systems
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ulirch Bindseil is currently the director general of the Directorate General Market Operations at the European Central Bank (ECB), and in November he ...
Tyler Cowen on the Culture of Big Business in the United States
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and is the co-author of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. Tyler has ...
Joe Gagnon on Currency Manipulation, Trade Imbalances, and Libra
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Gagnon is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics where he has been since September 2009. Previously, Joe worked for...
Heather Boushey on Income Inequality and Automatic Stabilizers
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Boushey is the executive director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting edge analysis into...
Jeffry Frieden on the Rise of Populism, Labor Mobility, and the Eurozone
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffry Frieden is a professor of government at Harvard University where he specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relatio...
Salim Furth on Land Use Regulations, the Rise of NIMBYism, and Options for Reform
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Salim Furth is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center where he studies regional, urban, and macroeconomic trends and policies. Salim joins ...
Sam Bell and Skanda Amarnath on Gross Labor Income Targeting
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Bell and Skanda Amarnath are a part of a new organization called Employ America, a new research and advocacy organization that aims to get better ...
Daniel Griswold on the USMCA, Tariffs, and the US Trade War
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Griswold is a research fellow and co-director of the Trade and Immigration Project at the Mercatus Center. Dan is a nationally recognized exper...
Mike Bird on Japanese Monetary Policy, Yield Curve Control, and the US-China Trade War
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bird is a Hong Kong based reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering financial markets across Asia, and he previously worked in the Journal's ...
Robert Samuelson on the Great Inflation, Its History and Its Legacy
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Samuelson is an economics columnist for the Washington Post and spent several decades working at Newsweek, where he wrote on various economic t...
Dylan Matthews on Nine Ways to Prevent Future Recessions
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent with Vox where he covers a wide array of topics including immigration policy, universal basic income, educati...
Robert Graboyes on Monetary History of Small Coins
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow and health economist at the Mercatus Center and has formerly worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmo...
David Andolfatto on a Standing Repo Facility, Safe Asset Shortage, and the Fed's Low Inflation Problem
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Andolfatto is a vice president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank and is published widely in the field of monetary economics. He also blogs a...
Alexandra Scaggs on Bond Markets, the Treasury Yield Curve, and MMT
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Scaggs is a senior writer at Barron's covering financial markets with a special emphasis on bond markets, and she previously wrote news and ...
Andrew Park on the Implications of Collateralized Loan Obligations
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Park is a senior editor at S&P LCD and is one of the foremost experts on collateralized loan obligations and the leverage loan market. Andrew a...
Eric Lonergan on Helicopter Drops and How to Improve Monetary Policy
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Lonergan is macro hedge fund manager, and economist, and a writer. He has written for Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and has authored the ...
Yair Listokin on the Convergence of Law and Macroeconomics
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Yair Listokin is a professor of law at Yale Law School and is the author of a new book titled, *Law and Macroeconomics*. He joins the show today to ta...
Bryan Cutsinger on Seigniorage and the Monetary Economics of the Civil War
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Cutsinger is an economist affiliated with Angelo State as well as Texas Tech University and recently published an article titled *Seigniorage in...
Paul Tucker on Central Bank Independence and *Unelected Power*
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Tucker is a 33-year veteran of the Bank of England where he served as both a member and deputy governor of the Monetary Policy Committee. Curre...
James Broughel on the Social Discount Rate
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James Broughel is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University Law School. James special...
Ryan Avent on Hyperinflation and the Fed's New Dovish Direction
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Avent is an economics columnist with The Economist magazine and is a previous guest of Macro Musings. He joins the show today to talk about some ...
146 – Michael Strain on the Current State of the Economy, the Green New Deal, and Populism on the Left and Right
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Strain is the director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, Michael worked in the Center for Economic ...
145 – George Selgin on *Floored!*
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, professor emeritus of economics at the Universit...
144 – Peter Stella on Debt, Safe Assets, and Central Bank Operations
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Stella is the managing director of Stellar Consulting and was formerly an IMF official where he led the central banking and monetary and foreign...