Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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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- Peter Conti-Brown1 ep
- Basil Halperin1 ep
- Rich Clarida1 ep
Also: Kris Mitchener, Steve Kamin, Mark Sobel, Ruth Judson, Bill Nelson, Neha Narula, Anders Brownworth, Daniel Aronoff, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Chris Meissner, Sam Lyman, Stephan Luck, Barry Eichengreen, Yesha Yadav, Chris Odinet, Andrea Tosato, Jeffrey Lacker
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| 10/19/26 |  Christina Skinner on the Financial Stability Oversight Council and Central Bank Independence | Christina Skinner is a legal and financial scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Bank of England official, and recently stepped down from her role as deputy assistant secretary in the FSOC office at the Treasury. Christina returns to the program to discuss her work with FSOC, the relationship between economic growth and financial stability, AI and financial regulation, central bank independence, the importance of democratic accountability, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on September 10th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow Christina Skinner on X: @CParaSkinner Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:33 - Financial Stability Oversight Council 00:21:32 - Priority Workstreams 00:28:29 - AI and Financial Stability 00:34:59 - Real-World Experience and Teaching 00:40:44 - Central Bank Independence 2.0 00:56:07 - Outro | 56m 52s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  John Rolle on The Bahamas' Fixed Exchange Rate and the First Nationwide Central Bank Digital Currency | John Rolle is governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas and is the second sitting central bank governor to appear on Macro Musings. In his first appearance on the show, John joins the program to discuss what it's like to manage a central bank in a small open economy with a fixed exchange rate, the economic vulnerabilities of a tourism-dependent economy, the SandDollar, the future of digital payments and financial resilience, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on September 8th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:02 - Central Bank of the Bahamas 00:18:02 - The Economy of the Bahamas 00:24:56 - Financial Stability in the Bahamas 00:39:29 - Dollar-Based Stablecoins in the Bahamas 00:42:50 - Tokenized Deposits in the Bahamas 00:44:14 - Future of the Financial System and Economy in the Bahamas 00:49:41 - Small Open Economy Central Banks 00:52:04 - Outro | 52m 48s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  George Selgin on the New Deal and the History of Banking Crises | George Selgin was a senior fellow and director emeritus at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. George returns to the show to discuss the New Deal's record on economic recovery, the Fed's balance sheet and operating system, the Main Street Lending Program, and the history of banking crises, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on July 28th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow George Selgin on X: @GeorgeSelgin Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:35 - George's Book on the New Deal 00:03:31 - Fed's Balance Sheet Policy Task Force 00:25:59 - The Fed's Main Street Lending Program 00:32:58 - Myths and Fallacies 00:54:06 - Outro | 54m 49s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  Erik Thedéen on QE, Central Bank Independence, and Digital Payments | Erik Thedéen is governor of Sweden's Riksbank, the world's oldest central bank, Chairman of the Executive Board, and the first sitting central bank governor to appear on Macro Musings. In his first appearance on the show, Erik joins to discuss the history and operation of the Riksbank, the lessons learned from QE, the future of digital payments, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on September 4th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:41 - Erik's Career 00:03:03 - History of the Riksbank 00:13:04 - Riksbank's Inflation Target 00:15:28 - Riksbank's Operating Framework 00:25:09 - Riksbank's Experiences with QE 00:30:26 - Deposit Facility at Riksbank 00:39:31 - Digital Payments 00:47:27 - Dollar-Based Stablecoins and Sweden 00:50:09 - Tokenization 00:52:37 - Outro | 53m 21s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 |  Ellen Correia Golay on All-to-All Trading and Treasury Market Liquidity | Ellen Correia Golay is a lead Treasury advisor in the markets group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ellen returns to the program to discuss the lessons of the March 2020 "dash for cash," how all-to-all trading and other market structure reforms could strengthen Treasury market liquidity and resilience, the rise of principal trading firms, and the future of the Fed's standing repo operations, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on August 19th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:20 - Ellen's Career and Responsibilities 00:09:29 - The Treasury Market 00:17:15 - All-to-All Trading 00:25:19 - Treasury Market Liquidity 00:32:59 - Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee 00:39:28 - Central Clearing 00:44:51 - Ellen's Policy Wishes 00:46:20 - Outro | 47m 05s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  Nellie Liang on Stablecoins After GENIUS, Private Money, and the Global Dollar | Nellie Liang is a former Treasury and Federal Reserve official and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In Nellie's first appearance on the show, she discusses the future of stablecoins following the GENIUS Act, what stablecoins mean for private money and illicit finance, Fed master accounts, the global role of the dollar, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on August 18th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:23 - Nellie's Career 00:05:48 - The GENIUS Act 00:11:31 - Stablecoins as Private Money 00:27:32 - Fed Master Accounts 00:29:53 - Dollar as Global Reserve Currency 00:35:42 - Stablecoins and US Debt 00:46:49 - Nellie's Policy Recommendations 00:50:11 - Outro | 50m 57s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 |  Stephen Miran on Regulatory Dominance, Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet, and the Return of Monetarism | Stephen Miran is a former governor of the Federal Reserve, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Donald J. Trump, and currently a senior strategist for Hudson Bay Capital Management. In Steve's third appearance on the show, he discusses his life as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and as a Federal Reserve governor, the Fed's balance sheet, regulatory dominance, the future of the discount window, the possible return of monetarism, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on August 20th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow Stephen Miran on X: @SteveMiran Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:42 - Life as CEA Chair 00:08:40 - Reducing the Fed's Balance Sheet 00:42:23 - A Return to Monetarism? 00:54:32 - Outro | 55m 16s | ||||||
| 8/31/26 |  Donald Kohn on the Fed's Past, Present, and Future | Donald Kohn is a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Don returns to the program to discuss the lessons of the Greenspan Fed, how Kevin Warsh should think about communication and forward guidance, why inflation remains a concern, the Fed's new task forces, the future of its monetary policy tools, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on July 22nd, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:25 - Working with Paul Volcker 00:08:22 - Working with Alan Greenspan 00:22:11 - The Kevin Warsh Fed 00:31:21 - Fighting Inflation 00:43:26 - Balance Sheet Task Force 01:08:21 - Outro | 1h 09m 02s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 |  Ben Harris on AI, Fiscal Sustainability, and the Resilience of the U.S. Economy | Ben Harris is vice president and director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and previously served in senior economic policy roles at the Treasury Department and Council of Economic Advisers. Ben returns to the program to discuss why recent economic shocks have been less damaging than expected, the outlook for inflation and energy markets, whether AI can improve the U.S. fiscal outlook, why we should temper our AI optimism, how longer lifespans and higher interest rates could complicate the fiscal picture, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on July 20th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Follow Ben on X: @econ_harris Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - Reasons We Were Wrong 00:11:58 - Stubborn Inflation 00:14:57 - Crude Is Not Really the Problem 00:20:12 - A Novel Sanctions Regime 00:30:35 - Temper Your AI Optimism 00:39:34 - Longer Lives, But Larger Debt 00:45:00 - AI and the Future of Interest Rates 00:49:24 - Policy Implications 00:56:26 - Outro | 57m 09s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 |  Bill Nelson on Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet and Reviving Interbank Markets | Bill Nelson is chief research officer and chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute and a former deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board. In Bill's 11th appearance on the show, he discusses how central banks are rethinking their operating systems, the case for a smaller Fed balance sheet and more routine discount window borrowing, the revival of interbank markets, lessons from Silicon Valley Bank, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on July 20th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:29 - Bill's Work with Central Banks Abroad 00:11:03 - Reducing the Fed's Balance Sheet 00:30:28 - Fed's Use of a Demand-Driven System 00:40:40 - Voluntary Reserve Target 00:54:31 - Outro | 55m 16s | ||||||
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| 8/10/26 |  Gianluca Benigno on Central Bank Balance Sheets, Stablecoins, and Nonlinear Inflation | Gianluca Benigno is a professor of economics at the University of Lausanne. Previously, he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an economist at the Bank of England. Gianluca returns to the program to discuss financial r-star, the changing landscape of central bank balance sheets, the unique challenges facing the Swiss National Bank, how stablecoins could affect Treasury markets and the demand for reserves, the return of nonlinear inflation, its implications for monetary policy, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on June 22nd, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow Gianluca Benigno on X: @BenignoGianluca Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:41 - R-Double-Star 00:04:10 - Central Bank Balance Sheets 00:09:22 - Swiss National Bank 00:32:05 - Working Paper on the Regulation of Stablecoins 00:45:41 - Inflation 00:53:19 - Outro | 54m 04s | ||||||
| 8/3/26 |  Barry Eichengreen, Paul Blustein, and Brendan Greeley on Dollar Dominance | Barry Eichengreen is a is well known author, economist, and economic historian from the University of California, Berkeley. Paul Blustein is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal journalist who has authored several acclaimed books on global economic institutions. Brendan Greeley is a veteran journalist from the Financial Times and current PhD student at Princeton studying monetary history. They all return to the show for a special roundtable discussion where they discuss the history of dominant currencies, whether we will always end up with a single reserve currency, whether monetary sovereignty is earned or given, the question of exorbitant privilege, what there is to do about a second China Shock, the future of dollars in the digital age, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on May 11th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow Barry Eichengreen on X: @B_Eichengreen Follow Paul Blustein on X: @PaulBlustein Follow Brendan Greeley on X: @BHGreeley Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:01 - On Each Author's Book 00:11:12 - Globally Dominant Currencies 00:25:37 - Single Reserve Currency 00:28:34 - Fed's Control Over Global Dollar System 00:38:39 - Exorbitant Privilege 00:46:30 - China Shock 2.0 00:49:23 - Future of the Global Dollar System 00:58:16 - Outro | 58m 56s | ||||||
| 7/27/26 |  David Wessel on the Fed's Current Inflection Point | David Wessel is a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings and is the director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. In David's first appearance on the show, he discusses stories of the Greenspan Fed, what is was like in Europe when the euro was adopted, the legacy of the Powell Fed, his thoughts on the great man theory, the outlook for the Kevin Warsh Fed, the ongoing challenge of Fed independence, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on June 15th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow David Wessel on X: @DavidMWessel Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:48 - David's Career 00:19:30 - Legacies of Fed Chairmans 00:31:51 - Kevin Warsh Fed 00:43:34 - Fed Independence 00:55:13 - Outro | 55m 54s | ||||||
| 7/20/26 | digital paymentsUS-China competition+4 | Sam Lyman | Bitcoin Policy InstituteMercatus Center at George Mason University+2 | — | digital paymentsBitcoin+6 | — | 58m 24s | ||
| 7/13/26 | financial stabilitybank failures+4 | Stephan Luck | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | — | financial stabilitybank failures+6 | — | 57m 47s | ||
| 7/6/26 | global currenciesmonetary history+3 | Barry Eichengreen | University of California, BerkeleyMercatus Center at George Mason University+1 | — | global currenciesmonetary history+5 | — | 57m 09s | ||
| 6/29/26 | stablecoinsmoneyness+3 | Yesha YadavChris Odinet+1 | Vanderbilt University Law SchoolTexas A&M University School of Law+2 | — | stablecoinmoneyness+5 | — | 1h 11m 31s | ||
| 6/22/26 | Fed Treasury Accordfiscal dominance+3 | Jeffrey Lacker | Richmond Federal Reserve BankMercatus Center | — | Fed Treasury Accordfiscal dominance+3 | — | 56m 30s | ||
| 6/15/26 | Bitcoinstablecoins+4 | Nik Bhatia | Bitcoin Policy InstituteThe Bitcoin Layer+1 | — | Bitcoinstablecoins+4 | — | 59m 16s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Federal Reserveeconomic policy+5 | Bryan CutsingerPeter Ireland+1 | Florida Atlantic UniversityBoston College+1 | — | Federal Reserveeconomic framework+8 | — | 1h 03m 46s | ||
| 6/1/26 | monetary historydollar history+4 | Brendan Greeley | Financial TimesPrinceton | — | dollarmonetary history+5 | — | 1h 02m 40s | ||
| 5/25/26 | bankingfinancial regulation+4 | David Zaring | University of PennsylvaniaCustodia+2 | — | skinny chartersGreat Financial Crisis+5 | — | 55m 50s | ||
| 5/18/26 | economic statisticsfiscal policy+4 | Bill Beach | US Bureau of Labor StatisticsFiscal Lab+1 | — | economic statisticsfiscal outlook+5 | — | 52m 53s | ||
| 5/11/26 |  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 appearance on the podcast he discusses his new book highlighting a different way of looking at recessions, the challenge of breaking away from the human inclination of ascribing patterns to random phenomena, whether recessions are more Dorian Gray or Peter Pan, what history and stories like Jay Cooke tell us about recessions, how to evaluate supply side shocks and the 2008 Financial Crisis, why Milton Friedman's Plucking model might be the best we have at modeling recessions, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on April 15th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:43 - Recessions 00:07:07 - Epiphanies or Apophanies 00:26:40 - Peter Pan vs. Dorian Gray 00:33:40 - Jay Cooke and the Railroad 00:39:00 - Models of Recessions 00:47:55 - Supply Shocks 00:50:12 - Recessions in Different Places 01:00:25 - Outro | 1h 01m 06s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | financial regulationbank supervision+5 | Peter Conti-Brown | GENIUS ActWharton Financial Regulation Conference+4 | — | financial regulationbank supervision+5 | — | 54m 56s | ||
| 4/27/26 | macroeconomic policytransformative AI+4 | Basil Halperin | University of VirginiaSilicon Valley+2 | — | macroeconomicsAI+5 | — | 56m 21s | ||
| 4/20/26 | monetary policyinflation+4 | Rich Clarida | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemColumbia University+2 | — | monetary policyinflation+5 | — | 52m 16s | ||
| 4/13/26 | economic historymonetary policy+4 | Kris Mitchener | Santa Clara UniversityMercatus Center at George Mason University | — | Kris Mitchenerbimetallism+4 | — | 56m 02s | ||
| 4/6/26 | dollar dominancestablecoins+3 | Steve KaminMark Sobel | American Enterprise InstituteFederal Reserve Board+3 | — | dollar dominancestablecoins+3 | — | 1h 01m 20s | ||
| 3/30/26 | monetary economicscounterfeit currency+3 | Ruth Judson | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | — | monetary economistcounterfeit dollars+3 | — | 50m 35s | ||
| 3/23/26 | Federal Reservebalance sheet+3 | Bill Nelson | Bank Policy Institute | — | Federal Reservebalance sheet+4 | — | 55m 32s | ||
| 3/16/26 | stablecoinsDigital Currency Initiative+4 | Neha NarulaAnders Brownworth+1 | Digital Currency InitiativeMIT+2 | — | stablecoinsDigital Currency Initiative+5 | — | 57m 04s | ||
| 3/9/26 | global demographic declineartificial intelligence+3 | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde | University of PennsylvaniaMercatus Center at George Mason University+1 | — | demographicsAI+5 | — | 1h 04m 01s | ||
| 3/2/26 | globalizationeconomic history+4 | Chris Meissner | University of California at DavisOne from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850 | — | global economyfinancial crisis+3 | — | 1h 00m 25s | ||
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Peaked at #57 in PH, currently #57 in PH.
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