James Sweeney on the Money View Framework and COVID-19's Implications for the Macro Economy
James Sweeney is the chief economist at Credit Suisse and joins us today as a part of our ongoing special coverage to talk about the coronavirus or COVID-19 and its implications for the economy. Speci...
16 Mar 202050min
Megan Greene on How to Use Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Fight the Coronavirus Crisis
Megan Greene is a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School and a senior fellow in international economics at Chatham House. Formerly, Megan was a chief economist on Wall Street and she cur...
11 Mar 202056min
Ben Moll on the Basics of HANK Models and How They Can Be Applied to Policymaking
Ben Moll is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, and is well known for his work on income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics and its implications for policy. Ben joins th...
9 Mar 202058min
Scott Sumner on How Central Banks Should Respond to the Coronavirus Threat
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a returning guest to Macro Musings. Scott joins the show today to talk about the re...
2 Mar 202054min
Paul Schmelzing on the 'Suprasecular' Decline of Global Real Interest Rates
Paul Schmelzing is an economic historian, a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and a postdoc at the Yale University School of Management. Paul has written an influential new paper on the long his...
24 Feb 20201h
Ernie Tedeschi on Output Gaps, Labor Markets, and the State of the Economy
Ernie Tedeschi is a policy economist and the head of fiscal analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He is also an occasional contributor to The Upshot section at The New York Times. Previousl...
17 Feb 20201h 5min
Brent Skorup on Autonomous Vehicles, Flying Cars, and Airspace as a Scarce Resource
Brent Skorup is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center where he specializes in transportation technology, telecommunications, aviation, and wireless policy. Brent also serves on the FCC's bro...
10 Feb 202055min
Marc Lavoie on Canadian Central Bank Policy, Real-time Payments, and the Post-Keynesian Tradition
Marc Lavoie is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and an author a recent article on the Bank of Canada's operating system. Marc is also the coauthor of a popular textbook titled, *Mo...
3 Feb 20201h 1min
