2024-07-22
54 分钟Welcome to Macro musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present and future.
I am your host, David Beckworth, a senior research fellow at the Mercator center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is James Bullardez.
Jim was the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve bank of St.
Louis from 2008 to 2023 and is currently the dean of the Mitchell E.
Daniels Junior School of Business at Purdue University.
Jim joins us today to talk about the time he spent at the Fed, fate, the upcoming Fed framework review, and much more.
Jim, welcome back to the program.
Great to be here.
Thanks for having me.
Well, it's great to have you on.
You've been a dean now for almost a year, is that correct?
Yeah, about eleven months.
Okay.
So you're well into your journey there as a dean, and I'm just wondering, what is it like going from being a Fed president to a business school dean?
Yeah, I've been joking with people a little bit that it's not all as different as you might think.
You have certainly an entity within a bigger system, which is very much what the Federal Reserve was like, and you have certain responsibilities in your group compared to the overall enterprise.
And so lots of dotted lines, lots of committees, but also authority within your own unit.
And there's a lot to like about the Daniels school.