Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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Macro Musings with David Beckworth
Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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Ben Harris on AI, Fiscal Sustainability, and the Resilience of the U.S. Economy
Ben Harris is vice president and director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and previously served in senior economic policy roles at th...
Bill Nelson on Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet and Reviving Interbank Markets
Bill Nelson is chief research officer and chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute and a former deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affair...
Gianluca Benigno on Central Bank Balance Sheets, Stablecoins, and Nonlinear Inflation
Gianluca Benigno is a professor of economics at the University of Lausanne. Previously, he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New Y...
Barry Eichengreen, Paul Blustein, and Brendan Greeley on Dollar Dominance
Barry Eichengreen is a is well known author, economist, and economic historian from the University of California, Berkeley. Paul Blustein is a former...
David Wessel on the Fed's Current Inflection Point
David Wessel is a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings and is the director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. In David's...
Sam Lyman on the Digital Payments Race Between the US and China
Sam Lyman is the head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and formerly was a senior advisor and speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Bessent. I...
Stephan Luck on What History can Teach Us about Financial Stability
Stephan Luck is a Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In Stephan's first appearance on the show, he discusses how the...
Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies
Barry Eichengreen is a well known author, economist, and economic historian from the University of California, Berkeley. In Barry's first appearance o...
Yesha Yadav, Chris Odinet, and Andrea Tosato on the Moneyness of Stablecoins
Yesha Yadav is a professor of law, the Milton R. Underwood Chair, the Associate Dean & Robert Belton Director of Culture & Community, and the Co-Facul...
Jeffrey Lacker on What a New Fed Treasury Accord Might Look Like
Jeffrey Lacker is the former president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank and is a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center. Jeff returns to...
Nik Bhatia on Bitcoin and the Case for Using Stablecoins for Statecraft
Nik Bhatia is an author of two economics books, a visiting fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and the founder of The Bitcoin Layer. In Nik's firs...
Bryan Cutsinger, Peter Ireland, and Will Luther on Lessons Learned from the Fed Framework Review
Bryan Cutsinger is an assistant professor of economics at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. Peter Ireland is a professor of Eco...
Brendan Greeley on the 500 Year History of the Dollar
Brendan Greeley is a veteran journalist from the Financial Times and current PhD student at Princeton studying monetary history. In Brendan's first ap...
David Zaring on Skinny Charters and the Future of Banking
David Zaring is legal scholar and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In David's first appearance on the show, he discusses the role the Gre...
Bill Beach on the Future of United States' Economic Statistics and Fiscal Position
Bill Beach is the former commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the current executive director of the Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill. In Bi...
Tyler Goodspeed on Challenging the Way Economists Look at Recessions
Tyler Goodspeed is the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and is currently a chief economist in the private sector. In Tyler's first...
Peter Conti-Brown and David Beckworth on All Things Financial Regulation
Recorded live in front of the Wharton Financial Regulation Conference, former guest Peter Conti-Brown joins David Beckworth as a Macro Musings co-host...
Basil Halperin on Macroeconomic Policy in an Age of Transformative AI
Basil Halperin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. In Basil's first appearance on the show he discusses the famous b...
Rich Clarida on Navigating Monetary Policy in Choppy Waters
Rich Clarida was the vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is currently a professor of economics at Columbia Universi...
Kris Mitchener on What Actually Anchors the Price Level
Kris Mitchener is a professor of economics at Santa Clara University and is an economic and monetary historian. In Kris's first appearance on the show...
Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance
Steve Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Fe...
Ruth Judson on Chasing Dollars Around the World
Ruth Judson is a monetary economist, economic historian, and veteran of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In Ruth's first appearance on the show...
Bill Nelson on the Future of the Fed's Balance Sheet
Bill Nelson is a chief research officer and chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute. In Bill's 10th appearance on the show he discusses his infam...
Neha Narula, Anders Brownworth, and Daniel Aronoff on Understanding Stablecoins in the GENIUS Era
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Neha Narula is the director of the Digital Currency Initiative which is based out of the Me...
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on the Quandary of Global Demographic Decline
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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. J...
Chris Meissner on the History of Globalization
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Chris Meissner is a professor of economics at University of California at Davis and is the...
Raghuram Rajan on the Impact of the Ratcheting Effect of The Fed's QE Program
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Raghuram Rajan is a finance professor at the University of Chicago and leads the Group of 3...
Andrew Martinez on the Art of Forecasting
Andrew Martinez is a former Treasure economist and currently is an assistant professor of economics at American University. In Andrew's first appearan...
Dan Awrey on the Future of the U.S. Payments System in a Digital World
Dan Awrey is a professor of Law at Cornell University and the author of the new book Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money. Da...
Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy Confusion in Our Current Policy Debates
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair Emeritus of Monetary Policy and the founder of the Monetary Policy Program at Mercatus. Scott returns to th...
Tyler Muir on How to Understand the Fed's Quantitative Easing
Tyler Muir is a professor of finance at UCLA. In Tyler's first appearance on the show, he discusses how he became a leading scholar on quantitative ea...
Richard Berner on Growth of the Private Credit and the Role of Fiscal Dominance on Treasury Markets
Richard Berner is the former director of the Office of Financial Research and was a counselor of the Treasury Secretary. In Richard's first appearance...
Aaron Klein on the US's Real-Time Payments Problem and the Impact of Covid Era Quantitative Easing
Aaron Klein is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Aaron returns to the show to discuss his paper with George Selgin cal...
Per Åsberg Sommar on the State of the Riksbank and Operating Systems Around the World
Per Åsberg Sommar is a senior advisor in the markets department at the Swedish central bank. In Per's first appearance on the show, he discusses his c...
2025 Macro Musings Retrospective
David Beckworth and producer Sam Alburger dive into the last year of Macro Musings. They discuss David's foray into Substack, their favorite episodes...
Veronique de Rugy on the Impending American Fiscal Crisis
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In Ve...
Martha Gimbel on the Impact of AI and the Trade War on Labor Markets
Martha Gimbel is the executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. In Martha's first appearance on the show, she discusses the missing...
Laurence Bristow on What the Fed can Learn from the Reserve Bank of Australia
Laurence Bristow is a former staffer at the Reserve Bank of Australia and currently is a Vice President and Research Associate at the Bank Policy Inst...
Austin Campbell on the Rise and Regulation of Dollar Backed Stablecoins
Austin Campbell runs Zero Knowledge Group, a consulting and advising firm in the digital assets space and is an adjunct professor at New York Universi...
Mike Bird on the Land Trap and How the History of Housing Impacts the Global Economy
Mike Bird is the Wall Street editor for The Economist magazine and is the author of The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset. Mike ret...