Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 6 hours 41 minutes
Jim Bianco on Policy Responses to the Coronavirus: Details, Implications, and Concerns Moving Forward
The post-virus economy faces possibility of higher inflation, threats to Fed independence, and increased pressure on the European Union.
Robin Brooks on COVID-19’s Impact on Emerging Markets and the Domestic Policy Response to the Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is hitting emerging markets especially hard, and the global dollar cycle can explain why.
Stan Veuger on Helping Businesses Survive in the Post-Coronavirus Economy
Emergency loans to small and medium-sized U.S. businesses can help the economy endure the pandemic and stage a strong rebound.
Claudia Sahm on Direct Payments to Individuals and Other Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
Sending direct payments to individuals may be the most crucial and immediate step the government can take to soften the blow of the coronavirus crisis.
James Sweeney on the Money View Framework and COVID-19’s Implications for the Macro Economy
James Sweeney is the chief economist at Credit Suisse and joins us today as a part of our ongoing special coverage to talk about the coronavirus or COVID-19 and its implications for the economy. Specifically, David and James discuss what this pandemic...
Megan Greene on How to Use Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Fight the Coronavirus Crisis
Megan Greene is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and a senior fellow in international economics at Chatham House. Formerly, Megan was a chief economist on Wall Street and she currently has a bi-weekly column in the Financial...
Ben Moll on the Basics of HANK Models and How They Can Be Applied to Policymaking
Ben Moll is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, and is well known for his work on income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics and its implications for policy. Ben joins the show today to talk about this work and provide a...
Scott Sumner on How Central Banks Should Respond to the Coronavirus Threat
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a returning guest to Macro Musings. Scott joins the show today to talk about the recent market turmoil caused by the COVID-19...
Paul Schmelzing on the ‘Suprasecular’ Decline of Global Real Interest Rates
Paul Schmelzing is an economic historian, a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and a postdoc at the Yale University School of Management. Paul has written an influential new paper on the long history of interest rates titled, "Eight centuries of...
Ernie Tedeschi on Output Gaps, Labor Markets, and the State of the Economy
Ernie Tedeschi is a policy economist and the head of fiscal analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He is also an occasional contributor to The Upshot section at The New York Times. Previously, Ernie was a senior advisor and an economist at...