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 5 hours 33 minutes
Carola Binder on Political Pressure and the Twin Deficits of Central Banking
Carola Binder is an assistant professor of economics at Haverford College and is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Central Banking. Carola is also a member of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Central Bank Communication,...
Binyamin Appelbaum on *The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society*
Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, and he was previously a Washington correspondent for The Times covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Binyamin...
George Selgin on the Past, Present, and Future of a Real-time Payments System
The US is trailing the world on real-time payments, and it’s important we get caught up to speed.
Henry Curr on Inflation, the Phillips Curve, and A New Monetarism
Henry Curr is the economics editor for The Economist magazine, and the author of a special report by the magazine on the phenomenon of low inflation now facing the global economy. Henry joins the show today to outline this report and the big questions...
Diego Zuluaga on Libra, Real-time Payments, and the Legacy of the Community Reinvestment Act
Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives where he covers financial technology and consumer credit, and before joining Cato, Diego was head of financial services and tech policy at the...
Frances Coppola on the Macroeconomics of Helicopter Drops
Frances Coppola is a former banker, financial writer, and an author of a recent book titled, *The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing*, and she joins the show today to talk about it. David and Frances also discuss the overall potential...
David Beckworth on the Facts, Fears, and Functionality of NGDP Level Targeting
In this special episode of Macro Musings, the roles are reversed, and David Beckworth joins guest host Cardiff Garcia, host of NPR’s “The Indicator from Planet Money”, to talk about his newest paper, *Facts, Fears, and Functionality of NGDP...
Srinivas Thiruvadanthai on the Sectoral Financial Balance Approach to Macroeconomics
Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is a managing director and the director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. Sri joins the show today to talk about the sectoral financial balance approach to macroeconomics as well as the safe asset supply...
Bill Nelson on the Repo Market Stress, the Fed's Operating System, and the Prospects for a Standing Repo Facility
Bill Nelson is a chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute and was previously a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window policy...
Jim Dorn on the History of Monetary Policy in Washington D.C. and its Future
Jim Dorn is the Vice President for Monetary Studies at the Cato Institute and is the director of Cato’s annual Monetary Policy Conference. Jim has written widely on Federal Reserve policy and monetary reform, and has also edited more than 10 books...