Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy Confusion in Our Current Policy Debates
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair Emeritus of Monetary Policy and the founder of the Monetary Policy Program at Mercatus. Scott returns to the show, to discuss his life post Mercatus, nominal...
2 Feb 1h 5min
Tyler Muir on How to Understand the Fed's Quantitative Easing
Tyler Muir is a professor of finance at UCLA. In Tyler's first appearance on the show, he discusses how he became a leading scholar on quantitative easing, what things the Fed can learn in responding ...
26 Jan 55min
Richard Berner on Growth of the Private Credit and the Role of Fiscal Dominance on Treasury Markets
Richard Berner is the former director of the Office of Financial Research and was a counselor of the Treasury Secretary. In Richard's first appearance on the show, he discusses a career that included ...
19 Jan 59min
Aaron Klein on the US's Real-Time Payments Problem and the Impact of Covid Era Quantitative Easing
Aaron Klein is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Aaron returns to the show to discuss his paper with George Selgin calling for real time payments, the inequality caused...
12 Jan 1h 2min
Per Åsberg Sommar on the State of the Riksbank and Operating Systems Around the World
Per Åsberg Sommar is a senior advisor in the markets department at the Swedish central bank. In Per's first appearance on the show, he discusses his career as a central banker, the history of the Riks...
5 Jan 58min
2025 Macro Musings Retrospective
David Beckworth and producer Sam Alburger dive into the last year of Macro Musings. They discuss David's foray into Substack, their favorite episodes of the year, the most popular episodes of 2025, Da...
29 Dec 202556min
Veronique de Rugy on the Impending American Fiscal Crisis
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In Veronique's first appearance on Macro Musings she di...
22 Dec 202559min
Martha Gimbel on the Impact of AI and the Trade War on Labor Markets
Martha Gimbel is the executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. In Martha's first appearance on the show, she discusses the missing BLS job market data, the consequences of losing tw...
15 Dec 202555min
