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Macro Musings
564 episodes · by David Beckworth
About Macro Musings
Macro Musings is a podcast with 564 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Macro Musings and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Macro Musings
Economic Analysis in National Security Russia Sanctions Impact Ukraine War and Sanctions Escalation China Contingency Planning Economic Security vs. Efficiency Dollar Dominance and Digital Currencies Demographics and National Power China's Alleged Targeting of the Fed
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Ben Harris on AI, Fiscal Sustainability, and the Resilience of the U.S. Economy — August 24, 2026Bill Nelson on Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet and Reviving Interbank Markets — August 17, 2026Gianluca Benigno on Central Bank Balance Sheets, Stablecoins, and Nonlinear Inflation — August 10, 2026Barry Eichengreen, Paul Blustein, and Brendan Greeley on Dollar Dominance — August 03, 2026David Wessel on the Fed's Current Inflection Point — July 27, 2026Sam Lyman on the Digital Payments Race Between the US and China — July 20, 2026Stephan Luck on What History can Teach Us about Financial Stability — July 13, 2026Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies — July 06, 2026Yesha Yadav, Chris Odinet, and Andrea Tosato on the Moneyness of Stablecoins — June 29, 2026Jeffrey Lacker on What a New Fed Treasury Accord Might Look Like — June 22, 2026Nik Bhatia on Bitcoin and the Case for Using Stablecoins for Statecraft — June 15, 2026Bryan Cutsinger, Peter Ireland, and Will Luther on Lessons Learned from the Fed Framework Review — June 08, 2026Brendan Greeley on the 500 Year History of the Dollar — June 01, 2026David Zaring on Skinny Charters and the Future of Banking — May 25, 2026Bill Beach on the Future of United States' Economic Statistics and Fiscal Position — May 18, 2026Tyler Goodspeed on Challenging the Way Economists Look at Recessions — May 11, 2026Peter Conti-Brown and David Beckworth on All Things Financial Regulation — May 04, 2026Basil Halperin on Macroeconomic Policy in an Age of Transformative AI — April 27, 2026Rich Clarida on Navigating Monetary Policy in Choppy Waters — April 20, 2026Kris Mitchener on What Actually Anchors the Price Level — April 13, 2026Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance — April 06, 2026Ruth Judson on Chasing Dollars Around the World — March 30, 2026Bill Nelson on the Future of the Fed's Balance Sheet — March 23, 2026Neha Narula, Anders Brownworth, and Daniel Aronoff on Understanding Stablecoins in the GENIUS Era — March 16, 2026Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on the Quandary of Global Demographic Decline — March 09, 2026Chris Meissner on the History of Globalization — March 02, 2026Raghuram Rajan on the Impact of the Ratcheting Effect of The Fed's QE Program — February 23, 2026Andrew Martinez on the Art of Forecasting — February 16, 2026Dan Awrey on the Future of the U.S. Payments System in a Digital World — February 09, 2026Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy Confusion in Our Current Policy Debates — February 02, 2026Tyler Muir on How to Understand the Fed's Quantitative Easing — January 26, 2026Richard Berner on Growth of the Private Credit and the Role of Fiscal Dominance on Treasury Markets — January 19, 2026Aaron Klein on the US's Real-Time Payments Problem and the Impact of Covid Era Quantitative Easing — January 12, 2026Per Åsberg Sommar on the State of the Riksbank and Operating Systems Around the World — January 05, 20262025 Macro Musings Retrospective — December 29, 2025Veronique de Rugy on the Impending American Fiscal Crisis — December 22, 2025Martha Gimbel on the Impact of AI and the Trade War on Labor Markets — December 15, 2025Laurence Bristow on What the Fed can Learn from the Reserve Bank of Australia — December 08, 2025Austin Campbell on the Rise and Regulation of Dollar Backed Stablecoins — December 01, 2025Mike Bird on the Land Trap and How the History of Housing Impacts the Global Economy — November 24, 2025Lukasz Rachel on Non-Ricardian Macroeconomic Policy and Its Implications for Inflation — November 17, 2025Tara Sinclair on Building a Synthetic FOMC Through AI — November 10, 2025Bryan Cutsinger on the What the History of Growth Driven Deflation Can Teach us about a Potential AI Boom — November 03, 2025Will Roberds and Steve Quinn on the Original Central Bank: the Bank of Amsterdam — October 27, 2025Jim Clouse on the Last 4 Decades at the Most Powerful Central Bank in the World — October 20, 2025Manmohan Singh on the Meaning of Money after the GENIUS Act — October 13, 2025Raphael Bostic on Life as a Regional Fed President, the Responsibilities of a Dual Mandate, and the Results of the 2025 Framework Review — October 06, 2025Jon Hartley on the Legacy of John Taylor and his New Measure of R-Star — September 29, 2025Marc Giannoni on the Fed's Framework Review, it's Independence, and the Future of R-Star — September 22, 2025Samim Ghamami on the Treasury Markets Impact on the Future Path of Interest Rates and Inflation — September 15, 2025
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