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
Joey Politano on the AI Investment Boom and Trends in Economic Growth
Joey Politano is an economist and a commentator who writes a popular Substack newsletter on economics. Joey is also a returning guest to Macro Musings, and he rejoins David to talk about the AI invest...
16 Dec 202454min
Jeffrey Lacker on the History of Fed Credit Policy and the Four Doctrines of Fed Lending
Jeffrey Lacker is a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center, and he previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he served as its president from 2004 to 2017. Jeff is also...
9 Dec 202456min
Zachary Mazlish on the Political Implications of Inflation and the Impact of Transformative AI
Zachary Mazlish is an economist at the University of Oxford, and he joins David on Macro Musings to explain some recent and important macroeconomic developments, specifically the inflation linkages to...
2 Dec 202450min
Ellen Correia Golay on the Keys to Improving Treasury Market Resiliency
Ellen Correia Golay is an advisor in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, focusing on the US Treasury market. She also helped lead an interagency working group report and a recen...
25 Nov 202447min
Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism
Emil Verner is an associate professor of finance at MIT Sloan and is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Emil has written widely on financial stability, banking panics, and ...
18 Nov 202455min
Loretta Mester on How to Improve the Fed's Operating Framework
Loretta Mester was president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from 2014 through June of 2024, and she is a 39-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System. Loretta is also currently an a...
11 Nov 202456min
