Senator Pat Toomey on Fed Governance, Monetary Policy, and the future of Digital Assets
Pat Toomey is a former senator from the state of Pennsylvania and served on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In Pat's first appearance on the show he discussed his career in publi...
10 Feb 202558min
Brian Albrecht on Business Dynamism, Greedflation, and Antitrust
Brian Albrecht is the chief economist for the International Center for Law & Economics and is the coauthor of the economics newsletter Economic Forces. In Brian's first appearance on the show, he disc...
3 Feb 202556min
The Fed Framework Review: Macro Musings' Greatest NGDP Targeting Hits
On this special greatest hits compilation episode our host David Beckworth primes listeners for the Fed Framework Review by highlighting the best snippets from past shows discussing nominal GDP target...
27 Jan 20251h 5min
Peter Conti-Brown on the Fed under Trump 2.0, Reforming the Discount Window, and Providential Moments
Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter returns to the po...
20 Jan 20251h
David Bahnsen on the Incoming Trump Administration and the Financialization of the US Economy
David Bahnsen is a Wall Street veteran and currently is the managing director of The Bahnsen Group. In David's first appearance on the podcast, he talks through multiple questions about the incoming T...
13 Jan 202554min
Marijn Bolhuis on Fiscal R-star and its Implications for Macroeconomic Policy
Marijn Bolhuis is an economist in the World Economic Studies Division of the IMF's research department. In Marijn's first appearance on the podcast he discusses his new paper, which introduces the ide...
6 Jan 202552min
Macro Musings 2024 Retrospective
David Beckworth and producer Sam Alburger dive into the last year of Macro Musings. They pick their favorite episodes, discuss how the year 2024 will be remembered in the macroeconomic history, highli...
30 Dec 202437min
George Selgin on Strategic Bitcoin Reserves, Debanking, and the Fed's Framework Review
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. George is also a returning guest to the program, and he rejoins Davi...
23 Dec 20241h
