
Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance
Steven Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, and is a returning guest to the...
11 Mar 202456min

Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations
Peter Williams is a managing director of macroeconomic research at 22V Research and was formerly at the IMF and the World Bank. Peter joins David on Macro Musings to provide a market perspective on in...
4 Mar 202457min

Bill Nelson on the Using the Discount Window for Liquidity Requirements and Its Implications for the Fed's Balance Sheet
Bill Nelson is the chief economist and an executive vice president at the Bank Policy Institute. Bill previously was a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board,...
26 Feb 202451min

Eric Leeper on *A Fiscal Accounting of COVID Inflation*
Eric Leeper is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, a former advisor to central banks around the world, and a distinguished visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center. Eric is also a r...
19 Feb 20241h 1min

Jeffrey Lacker on Governance at the Federal Reserve
Jeffrey Lacker is a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he served as its head from 2004 to 2017. Jeffrey is now a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center and is al...
12 Feb 202456min

Mark Koyama on *How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth*
Mark Koyama is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and is a senior fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercat...
5 Feb 202455min

Gauti Eggertsson on the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge and its Implications for Monetary Policy
Gauti Eggertsson is a professor of economics at Brown University and is the author of several recent papers on the causes of the 2021-22 inflation surge and the lessons to be drawn from it for monetar...
29 Jan 202459min

Jonathon Hazell on Phillips Curves, Wage Rigidity, and How to Measure R-Star
Jonathon Hazell is an assistant professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Jonathon joins Macro Musings to talk about Phillips curves, R-stars, and nominal wage rigidity. Specifically, ...
22 Jan 20241h 10min






















