Macro Musings with David Beckworth

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Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings is a new podcast which pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.

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01.20.2020

Title: Macro Musings Producers’ Special – A Recap of 2019 and a Glimpse into the Future Description: To accompany the new year, David Beckworth is joined by the producers of Macro Musings, Marc and Carter, to talk about the highlights ...

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01.20.2020 Macro Musings Producers’ Special – A Recap of 2019 and a Glimpse into the Future Title: Macro Musings Producers’ Special – A Recap of 2019 and a Glimpse into the Future Description: To accompany the new year, David Beckworth is joined by the producers of Macro Musings, Marc and Carter, to talk about the highlights ...
01.13.2020 Eric Sims on New Keynesian Modelling and the Future of Macroeconomics in a Low Interest Rate Environment 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 Research and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. Eric, along with his colleague, Cynthia Wu, ...
01.06.2020 Peter Conti-Brown on Restoring the Promise of Federal Reserve Governance Peter Conti-Brown is an assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Peter is also a historian and a legal scholar specializing in the study of the Federal Reserve ...
12.23.2019 Josh Galper on the Current State of Repo Markets, Key Bottlenecks, and a Balanced Proposal to Restore Stability 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 as part of a two week special on the Fed and repo markets, as he ...
12.16.2019 George Selgin on Repo Market Stress, Fed Balance Sheet Volatility, and a Standing Repo Facility 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 podcast. He joins the show today as part of a two week special on the Fed ...
12.11.2019 RE-AIR: Robert Samuelson on Paul Volcker and the Great Inflation Robert Samuelson is an economics columnist for the Washington Post and spent several decades working at Newsweek, where he wrote on various economic topics. Robert is the author of several books, including *The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American ...
12.09.2019 Jim Bianco on Negative Interest Rates, Low Inflation, and Yield Curve Expansion 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 columnist for Bloomberg. Jim has 30-plus years of experience on Wall Street, and he joins the ...
12.02.2019 Claudia Sahm on the Sahm Rule and Using Big Data to Inform Policymaking 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 section chief in the Consumer Community Affairs Division as well as serving on the staff ...
11.25.2019 Carola Binder on Political Pressure and the Twin Deficits of Central Banking Carola Binder is an assistant professor of economics at Haverford College and is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Central Banking. Carola is also a member of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Central Bank ...
11.18.2019 Binyamin Appelbaum on The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society 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 correspondent for The Times covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Binyamin ...
11.11.2019 George Selgin on the Past, Present, and Future of a Real-time Payments System 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 podcast. Today, George joins the show to talk about recent developments in the payment system. Specifically, ...
11.04.2019 Henry Curr on Inflation, the Phillips Curve, and A New Monetarism 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 now facing the global economy. Henry joins the show today to outline this report ...
10.28.2019 Diego Zuluaga on Libra, Real-time Payments, and the Legacy of the Community Reinvestment Act Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives where he covers financial technology and consumer credit, and before joining Cato, Diego was head of financial services and tech policy at the Institute ...
10.21.2019 Frances Coppola on the Macroeconomics of Helicopter Drops 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 joins the show today to talk about it. David and Frances also discuss the overall potential ...
10.16.2019 David Beckworth on the Facts, Fears, and Functionality of NGDP Level Targeting 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 from Planet Money”, to talk about his newest paper, *Facts, Fears, and Functionality of NGDP Level ...
10.14.2019 Srinivas Thiruvadanthai on the Sectoral Financial Balance Approach to Macroeconomics Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is a managing director and the director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. Sri joins the show today to talk about the sectoral financial balance approach to macroeconomics as well as the safe asset supply challenge. ...
10.07.2019 Bill Nelson on the Repo Market Stress, the Fed's Operating System, and the Prospects for a Standing Repo Facility 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 Reserve Board, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window policy analysis, and ...
09.30.2019 Jim Dorn on the History of Monetary Policy in Washington D.C. and its Future 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 written widely on Federal Reserve policy and monetary reform, and has also edited more than ...
09.23.2019 Gregg Gelzinis on Reforming FSOC and How to Limit Future Financial Crises Gregg Gelzinis is a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress where he focuses his work on financial institutions, financial markets, consumer finance policy, and financial regulation more broadly, and he joins the show today to talk about these ...
09.16.2019 Soumaya Keynes on Trade, Dollar Dominance, and the Highlights of Jackson Hole 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, including trade policy, trade wars, and the future of trade. Soumaya joins the show ...
09.09.2019 Alex Tabarrok on the Elements of Economic Growth and the Decline of Dynamism 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 has written widely on long run economic growth and joins the show today to talk ...
09.02.2019 Judge Glock on the Riefler-Keynes Doctrine and Monetary Policy During the Great Depression 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 he has recently published a paper on an important idea shaping Federal Reserve policy during ...
08.26.2019 Thomas Hoenig on the Federal Reserve and the State of Banking in the US 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 Bank. Thomas is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at ...
08.19.2019 Chris Crowe on Hedge Fund Perspectives and the Economic Implications of Brexit Chris Crowe is head of economic research at Capula Investment Management, a London-based hedge fund, where he covers global economics, primarily the G10 countries plus China. Chris was previously UK economist at Barclays and prior to that he worked at ...
08.12.2019 Aaron Klein on Real-time Payments and Financial Regulation Aaron Klein is the director of the Center on Markets and Regulations at the Brookings Institution where, among other things, he focuses on financial regulations and real time payments. Aaron has written widely on real time payments and he joins ...
08.07.2019 Bonus Episode – Watch Party for the Fed’s Historic Interest Rate Cut In this special bonus episode of Macro Musings, David Beckworth joins Employ America and several other monetary policy enthusiasts on the day of the July FOMC meeting to discuss what would be an historic event – the first interest rate ...
08.05.2019 Evan Koenig on the Fed’s Review Period, Monetary Regimes, and Yield Curves 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 the show today to talk about his time at the Fed and some ...
07.29.2019 Ulrich Bindseil on Central Bank Operating Systems Ulirch Bindseil is currently the director general of the Directorate General Market Operations at the European Central Bank (ECB), and in November he will become the director general of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the ECB. Ulrich has written widely ...
07.22.2019 Tyler Cowen on the Culture of Big Business in the United States 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 published widely in economics and is the author of numerous books including his 2017 book, *The ...
07.15.2019 Joe Gagnon on Currency Manipulation, Trade Imbalances, and Libra Joe Gagnon is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics where he has been since September 2009. Previously, Joe worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as a senior economist and the associate director of both ...
07.08.2019 Heather Boushey on Income Inequality and Automatic Stabilizers Heather Boushey is the executive director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the US economy affect economic growth. Heather recently co-edited a book ...
07.01.2019 Jeffry Frieden on the Rise of Populism, Labor Mobility, and the Eurozone Jeffry Frieden is a professor of government at Harvard University where he specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Jeff is the author of many articles and books including *Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate ...
06.24.2019 Salim Furth on Land Use Regulations, the Rise of NIMBYism, and Options for Reform Salim Furth is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center where he studies regional, urban, and macroeconomic trends and policies. Salim joins the show today to talk about some of his work on housing supply in the United States ...
06.17.2019 Sam Bell and Skanda Amarnath on Gross Labor Income Targeting 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 labor market outcomes. Sam is also known on “FOMC Twitter” as an influencer when ...
06.10.2019 Daniel Griswold on the USMCA, Tariffs, and the US Trade War Daniel Griswold is a research fellow and co-director of the Trade and Immigration Project at the Mercatus Center. Dan is a nationally recognized expert on trade and immigration policy and is a returning guest to Macro Musings. He joins the ...
06.03.2019 Mike Bird on Japanese Monetary Policy, Yield Curve Control, and the US-China Trade War 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 London bureau. Mike is also a returning guest to Macro Musings, and he joins the ...
05.27.2019 Robert Samuelson on the Great Inflation, Its History and Its Legacy Robert Samuelson is an economics columnist for the Washington Post and spent several decades working at Newsweek, where he wrote on various economic topics. Robert is the author of several books, including *The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American ...
05.20.2019 Dylan Matthews on Nine Ways to Prevent Future Recessions Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent with Vox where he covers a wide array of topics including immigration policy, universal basic income, education policy, effective altruism, animal welfare, and global development. Dylan is one of Vox’s original founders and he ...
05.13.2019 Robert Graboyes on Monetary History of Small Coins Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow and health economist at the Mercatus Center and has formerly worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Chase Manhattan Bank. Robert joins the show today to talk about monetary history and ...
05.06.2019 David Andolfatto on a Standing Repo Facility, Safe Asset Shortage, and the Fed's Low Inflation Problem 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 at MacroMania, and has recently published on issues such as the zero lower bound, ...
04.29.2019 Alexandra Scaggs on Bond Markets, the Treasury Yield Curve, and MMT 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 commentary for the Financial Times and for Bloomberg. Alexandra joins the show today to talk about ...
04.22.2019 Andrew Park on the Implications of Collateralized Loan Obligations 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 also writes daily on what’s going on in the collateralized loan obligations (CLO) market ...
04.15.2019 Eric Lonergan on Helicopter Drops and How to Improve Monetary Policy 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 book Money (The Art of Living). More recently, Eric has also co-authored a new book ...
04.08.2019 Yair Listokin on the Convergence of Law and Macroeconomics 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 talk about the book as well as some of his new ...
04.01.2019 Bryan Cutsinger on Seigniorage and the Monetary Economics of the Civil War Bryan Cutsinger is an economist affiliated with Angelo State as well as Texas Tech University and recently published an article titled Seigniorage in the Civil War South. He joins the show today to talk about this article, the monetary history ...
03.25.2019 Paul Tucker on Central Bank Independence and Unelected Power 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. Currently, Paul is a senior fellow at Harvard and a chair at the Systemic ...
03.18.2019 James Broughel on the Social Discount Rate James Broughel is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University Law School. James specializes in state and federal regulatory procedures, cost-benefit analysis, and economic growth. He joins the show ...
03.11.2019 Ryan Avent on Hyperinflation and the Fed’s New Dovish Direction 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 of his recent columns including work on hyperinflation, the Green New Deal, and ...
03.04.2019 146 – Michael Strain on the Current State of the Economy, the Green New Deal, and Populism on the Left and Right Michael Strain is the director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, Michael worked in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau and in the Macroeconomics Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
02.25.2019 145 – George Selgin on Floored! George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia, and a returning guest to show. For this special live episode, George joins Macro Musings to ...

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