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
138 – Felix Salmon on Charitable Giving and Sovereign Debt
Felix Salmon is a financial journalist at Axios and the host of the Slate Money podcast. In this special holiday episode, Felix joins the show to discuss the economics of charitable giving and one of his other favorite topics, sovereign debt. David...
137 – Matt Mitchell on Rent-Seeking and Public Choice
Matt Mitchell is the director and senior research fellow at the Equity Initiative at the Mercatus Center. He joins the show today to talk about rent seeking and how it affects long term economic growth and prosperity. David and Matt also discuss...
136 – Josh Galper on LIBOR, Overnight Lending, and the Lehman Brothers Collapse
Josh Galper is the managing principal of Finadium, an independent consultancy in capital markets with unique expertise in securities, finance, collateral, and derivatives. He joins the show today to talk about money markets, overnight interest...
135 – Victoria Guida on Financial Regulation, Jay Powell, and Recent Fed Appointments
Victoria Guida is a reporter for Politico where she covers monetary policy and financial regulation, including extensive coverage of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the Treasury Department, and Congress. She joins the show today to talk about some of...
134 – Neil Irwin on the Invisible Recession, Monetary Regimes, and the Current Issues Facing the Fed
Neil Irwin is a senior economics correspondent for the New York Times and was formerly a columnist at the Washington Post. He is the author of the book, *The Alchemist: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire*, and he joins the show today to talk...
133 – Adam Ozimek on Population Growth, Declining Business Dynamism and Fed Policy
Adam Ozimek is a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics where he covers U.S. labor markets and demographics while actively blogging and tweeting about a wide range economic issues. He joins the show today to discuss mistakes in Fed policy and...
132 – Scott Sumner on the Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy, Ten Years Later after the Crisis
This week, Scott Sumner joins David Beckworth at the University of Texas at Austin for the Financial Crisis Symposium: “Ten Years Later: What Does the Data Say?” hosted by the Center for Enterprise and Policy Analytics at the McCombs School of...
131 – Mike Derby on Recent Economic Trends, Normalizing Monetary Policy and More
Mike Derby is a reporter for the Wall Street Jour…
130 – Don Boudreaux on Free Trade, Protectionism, and the China Shock
Don Boudreaux is a professor of economics at Geor…
129 – Nick Bunker on the Economic Recovery, Unemployment Measurement, and the U.S. Labor Market
Nick Bunker is an economist at the Indeed Hiring …