Macro Musings with David Beckworth

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 on the show, he discusses a career that included public service and Wall Street, the fragility of global liquidity, the implications of fiscal dominance, the expansion of private credit, the 2023 SVB banking turmoil, and much more.
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Recorded on January 7th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:57- Dick's Career
00:07:46 - Fragility of Global Liquidity
00:17:29 - Post-GFC Regulations
00:25:29 - Fiscal Dominance
00:36:23 - Private Credit
00:48:09 - Banking Turmoil of 2023
01:01:149 - Outro

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 calling for real time payments, the inequality caused by the Fed's current payment processes, the results of Covid time QE, recommendations for dealing with future crises, and much more.
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Recorded on December 11th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:06- Faster Payments
00:29:09 - Fed Governance
00:30:35 - Quantitative Easing and Housing Inflation Post-COVID
00:52:16 - Fed Assets
01:01:149 - Outro

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 career as a central banker, the history of the Riksbank, evolutions in inflation targeting at the Riksbank, changes in the Sweden's central banks operating system, its new tool called the Deposit Requirement Facility, and much more.
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Recorded on December 12th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:08 - Per's Career
00:04:02 - Riksbank
00:09:07 - Inflation Targeting at Riksbank
00:11:56 - Riksbank's Operating System
00:15:39 - Certificate of Deposits
00:33:42 - Quantitative Tightening
00:36:42 - The Deposit Requirement Facility
00:45:38 - Other Central Banks and Demand-Driven Systems
00:58:16 - Outro

David Beckworth and producer Sam Alburger dive into the last year of Macro Musings. They discuss David's foray into Substack, their favorite episodes of the year, the most popular episodes of 2025, David's push for NGDP targeting, this year's most hotly contested episode, how the year 2025 will be remembered in macro history, and much more.
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Recorded on December 10th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:16 - Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
00:12:24 - David's All-Star AI FOMC
00:14:46 - Most Entertaining Economist Debate
00:16:46 - Underrated or Favorite Episodes
00:24:30 - Most Popular Episodes
00:26:15 - The Push for Nominal GDP Targeting
00:32:10 - Accountability at the Fed
00:36:23 - Bitcoin Policy Summit
00:40:28 - Macro Musings at the Atlanta Federal Reserve
00:44:32 - Review of 2024 in Macro
00:47:17 - Macro in 2025
00:51:40 - Thank You
00:55:48 - Outro

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 Veronique's first appearance on Macro Musings she discusses her career as a think tanker's think tanker, what the difference is between classical liberals and libertarians, how America's mindset has shifted on trade and immigration, the fiscal health of the United States, the US's impending debt crises, solutions for fixing the fiscal health of the United States, and much more.
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Recorded on November 18th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:18 - Vero's Career
00:17:35 - Vero's Career
00:24:32 - Fiscal Policy at Mercatus
00:40:59 - Steps Toward a Sustainable Fiscal Path 
00:48:34 - Flattening the Debt Curve
00:59:13- Outro