Preview Mode Links will not work in preview mode

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.

Sep 7, 2020

George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and is a returning guest to Macro Musings. He joins again to talk about his views on the Fed’s new framework and his recent book titled, *The Menace of Fiscal QE.* Specifically, David and George discuss the Fed’s quantitative easing evolution, and how the move to a floor system helped pave the way for fiscal QE to become a more popular policy in the present.

 

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

 

George’s Twitter: @GeorgeSelgin

George’s Cato Institute profile: https://www.cato.org/people/george-selgin

 

Related Links:

 

*The Menace of Fiscal QE* by George Selgin

https://www.cato.org/books/menace-fiscal-qe

 

*Mission Creep at the Fed* by Greg Ip

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mission-creep-at-the-fed-11598461446

 

David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David’s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/