Alex Tabarrok on COVID-19 Response Efforts, Proposals for Continued Recovery, and Lessons for the Future
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Alex joins David Beckworth on the podcast to discuss how best to deal with COVID-19 a...
13 Apr 202054min
Ashoka Mody on COVID-19's Impacts on Global Trade, Credit Markets and the Broader Eurozone
Ashoka Mody is a professor of international economic policy at Princeton University, has formerly worked at the IMF and the World Bank, and is a returning guest to Macro Musings. In this episode, he j...
8 Apr 202055min
Peter Conti-Brown on the CARES Act and the Expanding Fed-Treasury Relationship in Response to COVID-19
Peter Conti-Brown – a legal scholar and financial historian at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution – returns to Macro Musin...
6 Apr 20201h 1min
Skanda Amarnath, Yakov Feygin, and Elizabeth Pancotti on Municipal Bond Market Intervention and the CARES Act as Responses to COVID-19
Skanda Amarnath is the Director of Research and Analysis at Employ America, Yakov Feygin is the Associate Director of the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute, and Elizabeth Pancott...
1 Apr 202055min
Jim Bianco on Policy Responses to the Coronavirus: Details, Implications, and Concerns Moving Forward
Jim Bianco, of Bianco Research, joins Macro Musings to discuss the latest on the economic impact from the coronavirus. David and Jim discuss the details and implications of the $2 Trillion Relief bill...
30 Mar 20201h 1min
Robin Brooks on COVID-19's Impact on Emerging Markets and the Domestic Policy Response to the Crisis
Robin Brooks is a chief economist at the Institute of International Finance and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the IMF. Robin joins Macro Musings to talk about the global economic implica...
25 Mar 202053min
Stan Veuger on Helping Businesses Survive in the Post-Coronavirus Economy
Stan Veuger is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he specializes in political economy and public finance. Stan joins us today to discuss his co-authored proposal to save Ame...
23 Mar 202053min
Claudia Sahm on Direct Payments to Individuals and Other Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
Claudia Sahm is the Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and formerly was a section chief at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Claudia spe...
18 Mar 202056min
