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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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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.

    Anat Admati on the US Banking System and the Basel III Endgame

    Anat Admati on the US Banking System and the Basel III Endgame

    Anat Admati is a professor of finance and economics at Stanford University and is the coauthor of the 2013 book, *The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It.* Anat is also a returning guest to Macro Musings and she rejoins the podcast to talk about the 2024 expanded edition of the same book, as well as the most recent developments in banking. David and Anat also discuss the effectiveness of post-financial crisis regulations, the design and impact of Basel III Endgame, the fallout from the most recent regional banking crisis, and a lot more.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Anat’s Twitter: @anatadmati
    Anat’s Stanford profile
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
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    *The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It – New and Expanded Edition* by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
     
    *The Parade of Bankers’ New Clothes Continues: 34 Flawed Claims Debunked* by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
     
    *Anat Admati on Debt, Equity, and Financial Instability* by Macro Musings
     
    *Anat Admati on the Perils of Corporate Debt and How COVID-19 Relief Efforts Have Gone Wrong* by Macro Musings
     
    *Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System* by Jed Rakoff

    • 56 min
    Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance

    Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance

    Steven Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, and is a returning guest to the podcast. Mark Sobel is the US Chairman at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, and he previously served at the US Department of the Treasury for nearly four decades, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy from 2000 to early 2015. Also, from 2015 through 2018, Mark served as a US representative at the IMF. Steven and Mark join Macro Musings to talk about dollar dominance and whether or not it is here to stay. Specifically, Steven and Mark also discuss current debates surrounding dollarization, the threat that China poses to dollar dominance, the weaponization of the dollar in the global economy, and a lot more.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Steven’s Twitter: @steven_kamin
    Steven’s AEI profile
     
    Mark’s Twitter: @sobel_mark
    Mark’s CSIS profile
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
    Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings
     
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    *Dollar Dominance is Here to Stay for the Foreseeable Future—the Real Issue for the Global Economy is How and Why* by Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel
     
    *Steven Kamin on the Global Influence of Fed Policy and the U.S. Dollar* by Macro Musings
     
    *US Sanctions Reinforce the Dollar’s Dominance* by Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter Garber

    • 56 min
    Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations

    Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations

    Peter Williams is a managing director of macroeconomic research at 22V Research and was formerly at the IMF and the World Bank. Peter joins David on Macro Musings to provide a market perspective on interest rates, Treasury markets, and monetary policy. Specifically, David and Peter discuss the dos and don’ts of estimating term premiums, the importance and future of R-star, the usefulness of inflation expectations, and a lot more.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Peter's Twitter: @peterdwilliams
    Peter’s LinkedIn profile
    Peter’s 22V bio
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
    Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings
     
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    *A Macroeconomic Approach to the Term Premium* by Emanuel Kopp and Peter Williams
     
    *Reading the Stars* by Peter Williams, Yasser Abdih, and Emanuel Kopp
     
    *Inflation Expectations in the U.S.: Linking Markets, Households, and Businesses* by Peter Williams

    • 57 min
    Bill Nelson on the Using the Discount Window for Liquidity Requirements and Its Implications for the Fed’s Balance Sheet

    Bill Nelson on the Using the Discount Window for Liquidity Requirements and Its Implications for the Fed’s Balance Sheet

    Bill Nelson is the chief economist and an executive vice president at the Bank Policy Institute. Bill previously was a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window policy analysis, and financial institution supervision. Bill also worked closely with the BIS working groups in the design of liquidity regulations. As a returning guest to Macro Musings, he rejoins David to talk about the recent proposals to improve the Fed’s lender of last resort role via the discount window, as well as recent developments related to the Fed’s balance sheet.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Bill’s BPI profile
    BPI’s Twitter: @bankpolicy
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
    Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings
     
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    *Comment on the New G30 Report* by Bill Nelson
     
    *Bank Failures and Contagion: Lenders of Last Resort, Liquidity, and Risk Management* by the Group of Thirty

    • 51 min
    Eric Leeper on *A Fiscal Accounting of COVID Inflation*

    Eric Leeper on *A Fiscal Accounting of COVID Inflation*

    Eric Leeper is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, a former advisor to central banks around the world, and a distinguished visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center. Eric is also a returning guest to the podcast, and he rejoins Macro Musings to talk about his work on the fiscal accounting of the COVID inflation surge. Specifically, David and Eric discuss fiscal dominance during the pandemic period, how the fiscal theory of the price level explains inflationary trends, the backward and forward-looking fiscal accounting exercises, and more.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Eric’s Twitter: @EricMLeeper
    Eric’s UVA profile
    Eric’s Mercatus profile
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
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    *A Fiscal Accounting of COVID Inflation* by Eric Leeper and Joe Anderson
     
    *Fiscal Dominance—What It Is and How It Threatens Inflation Control* by Eric Leeper
     
    *Three World Wars: Fiscal-Monetary Consequences* by George Hall and Thomas Sargent
     
    *The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level With a Bubble* by Markus Brunnermeier, Sebastian Merkel, and Yuliy Sannikov
     
    *George Hall on the History of the U.S. National Debt and Government Financing* by Macro Musings

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Jeffrey Lacker on Governance at the Federal Reserve

    Jeffrey Lacker on Governance at the Federal Reserve

    Jeffrey Lacker is a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he served as its head from 2004 to 2017. Jeffrey is now a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center and is also a returning guest to the podcast. He rejoins David on Macro Musings to talk about a wide range of Fed governance issues, including the evolving nature of governance at the Fed, the increasing politicization of the central bank, its continuing relationship with Congress, and a lot more.
     
    Transcript for this week’s episode.
     
    Jeffrey’s Mercatus profile
    Jeffrey’s website
    Jeffrey’s Richmond Fed archive
     
    David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
    Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings
     
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    *Governance and Diversity at the Federal Reserve* by Jeffrey Lacker
     
    *Some Questions About the Fed’s Monetary Policy Operating Regime* by Jeffrey Lacker
     
    *The Legacy of Bennett McCallum and Lessons for Monetary Policy Today* an event hosted by the Mercatus Center
     
    *Ed Nelson on the Life, Work, and Legacy of Bennett McCallum* by Macro Musings
     
    *What Can the Fed Do About the Deficit? Nothing* by Greg Ip

    • 56 min

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337 Ratings

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Hands down best podcast

This podcast is fantastic. It is consistently interesting, informative, and intellectually engaging. Amazing and thoughtful guests and helpful links provided with each episode. If you are just curious about monetary policy or a dedicated macro economist, this is the best way to spend one hour each week. Your brain will thank you for it.

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Great Pod!!

Very neat Dr. Beckworth!

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Well done - how to apply economic thinking and keep up to speed in new ideas

Great interviews, David Beckworth is a pro, and you can really see he knows his stuff, yet ask questions that speak to an audience from Economists to business owners to investors and folks that want to be up on economic thinking.

Be awesome to see an “after-show” recap of some really big ideas, some additional facts and maybe even an application to a current event if that wasn’t already made during the show (which it usually is).

This is the sort of podcast that’s making me smarter. Awesome recording quality as well.

Well done!

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