Tyler Goodspeed on Challenging the Way Economists Look at Recessions

Tyler Goodspeed is the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and is currently a chief economist in the private sector. In Tyler's first...

Peter Conti-Brown and David Beckworth on All Things Financial Regulation

Recorded live in front of the Wharton Financial Regulation Conference, former guest Peter Conti-Brown joins David Beckworth as a Macro Musings co-host...

Basil Halperin on Macroeconomic Policy in an Age of Transformative AI

Basil Halperin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. In Basil's first appearance on the show he discusses the famous b...

Rich Clarida on Navigating Monetary Policy in Choppy Waters

Rich Clarida was the vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is currently a professor of economics at Columbia Universi...

Kris Mitchener on What Actually Anchors the Price Level

Kris Mitchener is a professor of economics at Santa Clara University and is an economic and monetary historian. In Kris's first appearance on the show...

Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance

Steve Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Fe...

Ruth Judson on Chasing Dollars Around the World

Ruth Judson is a monetary economist, economic historian, and veteran of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In Ruth's first appearance on the show...

Bill Nelson on the Future of the Fed's Balance Sheet

Bill Nelson is a chief research officer and chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute. In Bill's 10th appearance on the show he discusses his infam...

Neha Narula, Anders Brownworth, and Daniel Aronoff on Understanding Stablecoins in the GENIUS Era

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Neha Narula is the director of the Digital Currency Initiative which is based out of the Me...

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on the Quandary of Global Demographic Decline

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. J...

Chris Meissner on the History of Globalization

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Chris Meissner is a professor of economics at University of California at Davis and is the...

Raghuram Rajan on the Impact of the Ratcheting Effect of The Fed's QE Program

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Raghuram Rajan is a finance professor at the University of Chicago and leads the Group of 3...

Andrew Martinez on the Art of Forecasting

Andrew Martinez is a former Treasure economist and currently is an assistant professor of economics at American University. In Andrew's first appearan...

Dan Awrey on the Future of the U.S. Payments System in a Digital World

Dan Awrey is a professor of Law at Cornell University and the author of the new book Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money. Da...

Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy Confusion in Our Current Policy Debates

Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair Emeritus of Monetary Policy and the founder of the Monetary Policy Program at Mercatus. Scott returns to th...

Tyler Muir on How to Understand the Fed's Quantitative Easing

Tyler Muir is a professor of finance at UCLA. In Tyler's first appearance on the show, he discusses how he became a leading scholar on quantitative ea...

Richard Berner on Growth of the Private Credit and the Role of Fiscal Dominance on Treasury Markets

Richard Berner is the former director of the Office of Financial Research and was a counselor of the Treasury Secretary. In Richard's first appearance...

Aaron Klein on the US's Real-Time Payments Problem and the Impact of Covid Era Quantitative Easing

Aaron Klein is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Aaron returns to the show to discuss his paper with George Selgin cal...

Per Åsberg Sommar on the State of the Riksbank and Operating Systems Around the World

Per Åsberg Sommar is a senior advisor in the markets department at the Swedish central bank. In Per's first appearance on the show, he discusses his c...

2025 Macro Musings Retrospective

David Beckworth and producer Sam Alburger dive into the last year of Macro Musings. They discuss David's foray into Substack, their favorite episodes...

Veronique de Rugy on the Impending American Fiscal Crisis

Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In Ve...

Martha Gimbel on the Impact of AI and the Trade War on Labor Markets

Martha Gimbel is the executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. In Martha's first appearance on the show, she discusses the missing...

Laurence Bristow on What the Fed can Learn from the Reserve Bank of Australia

Laurence Bristow is a former staffer at the Reserve Bank of Australia and currently is a Vice President and Research Associate at the Bank Policy Inst...

Austin Campbell on the Rise and Regulation of Dollar Backed Stablecoins

Austin Campbell runs Zero Knowledge Group, a consulting and advising firm in the digital assets space and is an adjunct professor at New York Universi...

Mike Bird on the Land Trap and How the History of Housing Impacts the Global Economy

Mike Bird is the Wall Street editor for The Economist magazine and is the author of The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset. Mike ret...

Lukasz Rachel on Non-Ricardian Macroeconomic Policy and Its Implications for Inflation

Lukasz Rachel is a former Bank of England economist and currently is an assistant professor of economics at the University College of London. In Lukas...

Tara Sinclair on Building a Synthetic FOMC Through AI

Tara Sinclair is a professor and chair of the economics department at George Washington University. Tara returns to the show to discuss her ambitious...

Bryan Cutsinger on the What the History of Growth Driven Deflation Can Teach us about a Potential AI Boom

Bryan Cutsinger is a monetary historian and an assistant professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University. Bryan returns to the show to discuss...

Will Roberds and Steve Quinn on the Original Central Bank: the Bank of Amsterdam

Will Roberds is an economist emeritus of the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Steve Quinn is a professor of economics at Te...

Jim Clouse on the Last 4 Decades at the Most Powerful Central Bank in the World

Jim Clouse is a veteran of the Federal Reserve System and is currently a fellow at the Andersen Institute. In Jim's first appearance on the show, he d...

Manmohan Singh on the Meaning of Money after the GENIUS Act

Manmohan Singh is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Financial Markets Infrastructure. Manmohan returns to the show to discuss whether money still...

Raphael Bostic on Life as a Regional Fed President, the Responsibilities of a Dual Mandate, and the Results of the 2025 Framework Review

Raphael Bostic is the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In President Bostic's first appearance on the show...

Jon Hartley on the Legacy of John Taylor and his New Measure of R-Star

Jon Hartley is a macroeconomist and affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center. Jon returns to the show to discuss the most recent Hoover Monetary Conf...

Marc Giannoni on the Fed’s Framework Review, it’s Independence, and the Future of R-Star

Marc Giannoni is a managing director and the chief US economist at Barclays Capital. In Marc's first appearance on the show he discusses working on th...

Samim Ghamami on the Treasury Markets Impact on the Future Path of Interest Rates and Inflation

Samim Ghamami is former SEC economist. Samim returns to the show to discuss the fiscal trajectory of the US, the outlook of interest rates, the US Tre...

Samim Ghamami on the Treasury Markets Impact on the Future Path of Interest Rates and Inflation

Jerry Dwyer on the History of Free Banking and the Future of Bitcoin

Jerry Dwyer is a professor emeritus of economics at Clemson, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is currently a senior fellow...

Hester Peirce on the role of the SEC, Financial Surveillance, and Crypto

Hester Peirce is a current commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission and serves on its crypto task force. Hester returns to the show to d...

Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics

Robin Brooks is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Robin returns to the show to discuss his previous appearance in March of 2020, life at a...

Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on the Role Central Banker Relationships Play in Economic Crises

Aditi Sahasrabuddhe is a political scientist at Brown University and the author of the new book, Banker's Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Fin...