Darrell Duffie on Treasury Markets and the Post-COVID Path to Financial Stability
Darrell Duffie is a professor of finance at Stanford University, and he joins Macro Musings to discuss the treasury market problems that emerged in March 2020 and what can be done to avoid them in the...
15 Jun 202052min
Peter Stella on the Fed's Off-Balance Sheet Transactions and Public Financing of the COVID-19 Crisis
Peter Stella is a former IMF official, where he led the Central Banking and Monetary and Foreign Exchange divisions, and he now hosts a webpage titled *Central Bank Archeology*. Peter is also a former...
8 Jun 20201h 2min
Adam Tooze on Dollar Dominance, the Eurozone, and the Future of Global Finance
Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University, and is the author of many books, including his popular account of the 2007-2009 crisis, titled Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Ch...
1 Jun 20201h
Alp Simsek on a Risk-Centric View of Demand, Recession, and Speculation
Alp Simsek is an associate professor of economics at MIT, and joins Macro Musings to talk about the link between financial markets, uncertainty and the COVID-19 crisis. Specifically, David and Alp dis...
27 Mai 202059min
Thomas Hoenig on Bank Capitalization and Fed Policy after COVID-19
Thomas Hoenig is a former vice chair of the FDIC, former president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, and is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason Univer...
25 Mai 202055min
Scott Sumner on the Government's Response to COVID-19 and the Future of Level Targeting
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Professor Emeritus of economics at Bentley University, and a research fellow at the Ind...
20 Mai 202050min
Lev Menand on the Fed's Lending Facilities and the Legal Concerns Surrounding Them
Lev Menand is a legal scholar at Columbia Law School and has previously worked for the New York Fed, the US Treasury Department, and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Lev Joins Macro M...
18 Mai 20201h 3min
Martin Hellwig on the Recent German Constitutional Court Ruling and Its Potential Eurozone Implications
Martin Hellwig is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and he joins Macro Musings to talk about the Eurozone and the implications of the recent German Constitutio...
13 Mai 202043min
