2024-06-10
52 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 Beckwourth, 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 Laura's Christensen.
Lars is a former guest of the show, a founding member of the market Monitors tradition and now an entrepreneur in the AI space.
Lars joins us today to discuss AI, its implications for the economy and for monetary policy.
Lars, welcome back to the show.
Lars thank you, David.
Great to be back.
Well, its great to have you on.
We were talking on Twitter, now known as X.
I prefer to call it Twitter, so ill use Twitter.
We were talking on Twitter about some of the activities you've been doing with AI.
And so I want to talk about that later.
But you also are an entrepreneur of sorts in AI.
You've got your own business.
In fact, you're moving, as I understand from a lot of your focus being on macro work to AI.
So maybe tell us this story, how you are transitioning towards more of an AI focus.
Yeah, well, you know, I've been an economist now for nearly 30 years, and the entire period as a macro economist, first in government, then later in the banking sector, and running my old consultancy later on and doing academic work, has been about standing outside the economy and watching the economy.
But there has been this common denominator that data has played a significant role in that we both, of course, come from that market monetary tradition.