Dean Ball on the Past, Present, and Future of AI
Dean Ball is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. In Dean's first appearance on the show, he explains the AI revolution, current AI developments, policy implications of the AI boom, and the futur...
10 Mar 202557min
Liya Palagashvili on the Gig Economy, Portable Benefits, and Changing Labor Regulations
Liya Palagashvili is a senior research fellow and director of the Labor Policy Project at the Mercatus Center. In Liya's first appearance on the show she explains federal and state level changes to la...
3 Mar 20251h 3min
Evan Koenig on the Case for Nominal GDP Targeting
Evan Koenig is a former senior aide to the president of the Dallas Fed. Evan returns to the show to discuss, the ins and outs of nominal GDP targeting, the practical applications of NGDP targeting, th...
24 Feb 202551min
Steven Kelly on the Challenges of Treasury Equity Funding for 13(3) Facilities
Steven Kelly is the associate director of research as the Yale Program on Financial Stability. Steven returns to the show to discuss his new model, the Treasury Equity Model of the Federal Reserve's e...
17 Feb 202548min
Senator Pat Toomey on Fed Governance, Monetary Policy, and the future of Digital Assets
Pat Toomey is a former senator from the state of Pennsylvania and served on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In Pat's first appearance on the show he discussed his career in publi...
10 Feb 202558min
Brian Albrecht on Business Dynamism, Greedflation, and Antitrust
Brian Albrecht is the chief economist for the International Center for Law & Economics and is the coauthor of the economics newsletter Economic Forces. In Brian's first appearance on the show, he disc...
3 Feb 202556min
The Fed Framework Review: Macro Musings' Greatest NGDP Targeting Hits
On this special greatest hits compilation episode our host David Beckworth primes listeners for the Fed Framework Review by highlighting the best snippets from past shows discussing nominal GDP target...
27 Jan 20251h 5min
Peter Conti-Brown on the Fed under Trump 2.0, Reforming the Discount Window, and Providential Moments
Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter returns to the po...
20 Jan 20251h
