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Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings is a podcast which pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.

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

Nov 24, 2025

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 returns to the show to discuss the conclusion of Abenomics, the origins of land as an asset, the surge in housing prices during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the...

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

Nov 17, 2025

Lukasz Rachel is a former Bank of England economist and currently is an assistant professor of economics at the University College of London. In Lukasz’s first appearance on the show he discusses his big career breaks, the implications of secular stagnation in the industrialized world, what is next for R-star, what...

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Tara Sinclair on Building a Synthetic FOMC Through AI

Nov 10, 2025

Tara Sinclair is a professor and chair of the economics department at George Washington University. Tara returns to the show to discuss her ambitious paper simulating an FOMC meeting before it happens with LLM models, the process of building sim FOMC members, the importance of publicly funding economic data, the future...

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

Nov 3, 2025

Bryan Cutsinger is a monetary historian and an assistant professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University. Bryan returns to the show to discuss how we think about deflation, the history of growth driven deflation, the connection between the postbellum period and today, the potential of rapid productivity growth...

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