Nathan Tankus on Public Finance in the COVID-19 Crisis: A Consolidated Budget Balance View and its Implications for Policy
Nathan Tankus is the director of research at the Modern Money Network, and a research fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Nathan is also the author of a number of articles on th...
11 Touko 202053min
Anat Admati on the Perils of Corporate Debt and How COVID-19 Relief Efforts Have Gone Wrong
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 and how it makes our economy more susceptible to s...
6 Touko 202043min
Kathryn Judge on the CARES Act and the Political Implications of Relief Efforts
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 financial markets, financial regulation, and regu...
4 Touko 202057min
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on Central Bank Digital Currency and the Current Economic Responses to COVID-19
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate with the Center for E...
29 Huhti 20201h 1min
George Selgin on the Fed-Treasury Relationship, New Lending Facilities, and the Fed's Evolving Role in Response to COVID-19
George Selgin is the Director of the Cato Institute Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and a returning guest to Macro Musings. He joins David to break down recent policy actions by the Fed...
27 Huhti 20201h 4min
Mehrsa Baradaran on How COVID-19 is Exposing Existing Societal Wealth Gaps and Financial Access Challenges
Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California Irvine and researches banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books...
22 Huhti 20201h 1min
Nicholas Bloom on Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in the Short-run and Long-run
Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a leading scholar on management, productivity, innovation and economic uncertainty. Nick is a previous guest of Macro Musings and ...
20 Huhti 202053min
Brad Setser on Addressing the Global Dollar Shortage and COVID-19's Implications for Worldwide Trade Imbalances
Brad Setser is a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he works on macroeconomics, global capital flows, and financial crisis issues. Brad has previously...
15 Huhti 202049min
