Nathan Tankus on the Future of MMT and How to Avoid U.S. Debt Default
Nathan Tankus is a popular writer for a newsletter titled, *Notes on the Crises* and is the research director of the Modern Money Network. Nathan is also a returning guest to Macro Musings, and he rej...
8 Maj 20231h 8min
Brian Sack on the Fed's Balance Sheet and How to Improve the Floor Operating System
Brian Sack was recently the Director of Global Economics at the D.E. Shaw Group, and prior to that, he was the manager of the System Open Market Account or SOMA and the head of the Markets Group at th...
1 Maj 202347min
Mark Calabria on *Shelter From the Storm: How a COVID Mortgage Meltdown Was Averted*
Mark Calabria was the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and prior to that, he was formerly a chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence. Mark is also a previous guest of Macro Musings,...
24 Apr 202355min
BONUS: George Hall on Financing World War II and Managing Post-War Debt
George Hall is a professor of economics at Brandeis University, and was formerly an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. In this bonus segment from the previous conversation, George rejoins ...
19 Apr 202319min
George Hall on the History of the U.S. National Debt and Government Financing
George Hall is a professor of economics at Brandeis University, and was formerly an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. George has written widely on the history of U.S. public finance, and ...
17 Apr 202349min
Bill Nelson on the Fed's Discount Window Lending, the Overnight Reverse Repo Facility, and the Shifting Size of the Fed's Balance Sheet
Bill Nelson is a chief economist and executive vice president of the Bank Policy Institute and was previously a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where ...
10 Apr 202354min
Kate Judge and Peter Conti-Brown on the Lessons Learned from the 2023 Banking Panic
Kate Judge is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and the editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, and Peter Conti-Brown is an associate professor of financial regulation and the co-direct...
3 Apr 202356min
Brian Riedl on the Current and Future Outlook for US Public Finance and Budget Reform
Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he focuses on budget, tax, and economic policy issues. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist for Senator Rob Portman of...
27 Mars 202353min
