2025-01-20
1 小时 0 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 Merkita center at George Mason University, and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Peter Conti Brown.
Peter is an historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System, an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a longtime friend of the podcast.
Peter joins us again today to take stock of where the Fed has been over the past few years and where it is likely to go under the Trump administration.
Peter, welcome back to the program.
Such a delight to be here.
David, thanks for having me.
It's great to have you on.
We were just chatting before you came on that you were on the podcast back in 2016, and if I do my math correctly, that means we are starting year number 10, which kind of blows my mind that I've been doing it for 10, going on 10 years.
But thank you, Peter, because you were there to kind of help jumpstart this endeavor.
And here you are at the other end of it, help keeping it going.
I'm glad to be part of the first generation of Macro Amusings.
It's my favorite podcast.
I never miss a week.
Well, thank you so much, Peter, but times are changing, and as times change, so do we and the mediums that we use to reach our audiences.
So we've been making changes here on the podcast.
For example, we post video clips.
We have an AI chatbot, We have a discord.
And you yourself have been taking on some new changes in your life in terms of the mediums through which you reach your audience.