George Selgin on the Future of CBDC, Fed Accounts, and Stablecoins
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and is also a long-time returning guest of Macro Musings. He rejoins ...
24 Jan 202252min
Henry Curr on the Myths and Uncomfortable Truths about QE
Henry Curr is the economics editor for the Economist Magazine and a returning guest to the show. Henry has a new working paper out titled, "Money Printers Go Grrrr: Three Myths and Three Uncomfortable...
17 Jan 202251min
Lorie Logan on Monetary Policy Operations, the Fed's New Standing Repo Facility, and the Future of the Fed's Balance Sheet
Lorie Logan is an executive vice president in the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that role, she's the manager of the System Open Market Account (SOMA), for the Federal Open ...
10 Jan 202236min
Paul Krugman on the Year of Inflation Infamy
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Laureate in economics, a columnist at The New York Times, and a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He rejoins David...
3 Jan 202241min
David Beckworth on the Safe Asset Theory of Inflation, Comparing Central Bank Frameworks, and a Year of Macro Musings in Review
In this special end-of-the-year episode of Macro Musings, David Beckworth joins guest host David Andolfatto of the St. Louis Fed to discuss a wide range of macroeconomic topics, including podcast high...
27 Dec 202147min
Talmon Smith on the Great Inflation Surge of 2021
Talmon Smith is an economics reporter for The New York Times and joins David on Macro Musings to talk about the great inflation surge of 2021 and its implications for policy and politics. Specifically...
20 Dec 202147min
Yesha Yadav on the Fragilities in the Treasury Market and Solutions for Reform
Yesha Yadav is a law professor and associate dean at the Vanderbilt University Law School, where she works on banking and financial regulation, securities regulation, and the law of money and payment ...
13 Dec 202150min
Carola Binder and Christina Parajon Skinner on Populism and Legitimacy at the Federal Reserve
Carola Binder is an Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College, and Christina Parajon Skinner is an assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Both are ret...
6 Dec 202153min
