Macro Musings with David Beckworth
by Mercatus Center at George Mason University · 572 episodes
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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.
Latest episodes
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56 min
Patrick Harker on Real-Time Payments and the Future of the Federal Reserve
Patrick Harker is the Rowan Distinguished Professor, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the former pres…
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57 min
Christina Skinner on the Financial Stability Oversight Council and Central Bank Independence
Christina Skinner is a legal and financial scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Bank of England official, and recently stepped down from her role as deputy assistant…
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53 min
John Rolle on The Bahamas' Fixed Exchange Rate and the First Nationwide Central Bank Digital Currency
John Rolle is governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas and is the second sitting central bank governor to appear on Macro Musings. In his first appearance on the show, John join…
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55 min
George Selgin on the New Deal and the History of Banking Crises
George Selgin was a senior fellow and director emeritus at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the Unive…
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53 min
Erik Thedéen on QE, Central Bank Independence, and Digital Payments
Erik Thedéen is governor of Sweden's Riksbank, the world's oldest central bank, Chairman of the Executive Board, and the first sitting central bank governor to appear on Macro Musi…
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47 min
Ellen Correia Golay on All-to-All Trading and Treasury Market Liquidity
Ellen Correia Golay is a lead Treasury advisor in the markets group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ellen returns to the program to discuss the lessons of the March 2020 "…
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51 min
Nellie Liang on Stablecoins After GENIUS, Private Money, and the Global Dollar
Nellie Liang is a former Treasury and Federal Reserve official and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In Nellie's first appearance on the show, she discusses the future…
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55 min
Stephen Miran on Regulatory Dominance, Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet, and the Return of Monetarism
Stephen Miran is a former governor of the Federal Reserve, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Donald J. Trump, and currently a senior strategist…
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1 h 09
Donald Kohn on the Fed's Past, Present, and Future
Donald Kohn is a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Don returns to the program to discu…
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57 min
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 the Treasury Department and Coun…
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55 min
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 Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board…
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54 min
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 York and an economist at the Ba…
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59 min
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 Washington Post and Wall Stree…
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56 min
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 first appearance on the show,…
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58 min
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. In Sam's first appearance on th…
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58 min
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 2008 Great Financial Crisis sh…
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57 min
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 on the show he discusses a care…
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1 h 11
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-Faculty Director, Master of Laws (L…
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57 min
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 the show to discuss the histo…
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59 min
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 first appearance on the podcast, he…