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 discuss the lessons of th...
31 Aug 1h 9min
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 Council of Economic Advi...
24 Aug 57min
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. In Bill's 11th app...
17 Aug 55min
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 Bank of England. Gianl...
10 Aug 54min
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 Street Journal journalist...
3 Aug 58min
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, he discusses stories...
27 Jul 55min
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 the show, he discusses...
20 Jul 58min
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 shaped his career, how...
13 Jul 57min
