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Lorie Logan on Monetary Policy Operations, the Fed’s New Standing Repo Facility, and the Future of the Fed’s Balance Sheet

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Release Date: 01/10/2022

Mark Blyth on the Winners and Losers from Inflation

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Mark Blyth is a professor of international economics at Brown University. In Mark’s first appearance on the show, he discusses his new book Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, the concept of angrynomics, a new way to look at price controls, demographic decline, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on June 4th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow Mark on X: Follow the show on X: Check out our Macro Musings to David's new BTS YouTube Channel Timestamps 00:00:00...

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl on Reforms in the Treasury Market and Developments with Central Bank Operating Systems

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl is a senior vice president and the senior advisor to President Lorie Logan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Sam returns to the show to discuss recent macroeconomic conferences in the context of changes in the Treasury market and with central bank operating systems around the globe. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on May 27th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Check out our Macro Musings to David's new BTS YouTube Channel Timestamps...

Andy Levin on the Importance of an Independent Inspector General at the Federal Reserve - BONUS

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Andy Levin is an advisor to many central banks around the world and professor of economics at Dartmouth College. Andy returns to the show for a special bonus episode to discuss his pervious appearance and accompanying policy brief where he calls for an independent inspector general at the Federal Reserve. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on June 10th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Join the new Macro Musings ! Join the Macro Musings Check out our Macro Musings to David's...

Matthew Pines on the Future of Money, AI, and Monetary Policy

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Sign up for ! Matthew Pines is the executive director of the Bitcoin Policy institute. Matthew returns to the show to discuss the future of Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, US stablecoin regulation, geopolitics under Trump, monetary policy at the Fed, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on May 16th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow Matthew Pines on X: Follow the show on X: Check out our Macro Musings to David's new BTS YouTube Channel Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro...

Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta on the History of Bank Supervision in America

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System, and an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Sean Vanatta is a senior lecturer in financial history and policy at the University of Glasgow. Peter and Sean join the show to discuss their new book titled: Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America, as well as how powerlifting can be analogized in macroeconomics, and the implications of Trump v. Wilcox. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded...

George Selgin on Contextualizing the Great Depression and its Implications on Monetary Policy Today

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the new book titled False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947. George returns to the show to discuss the complicated economic history of the Great Depression, how that history has led us to the macro-events of 2008, 2010, and 2020, how we can apply lessons from the Great Depression to macroeconomic policy to the current moment, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded...

Daniel Bunn on Fiscal Issues Currently Facing the US Government

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Daniel Bunn is the president and CEO of the Tax Foundation. In Daniel’s first appearance on the show, he discusses the history of tax models, the threat that tariffs make to the US economy, where we currently stand with budget reconciliation, how he would fix the tax code if he was president, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on May 2nd, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Follow Daniel on X: Check out our new AI chatbot: the ! Join the new Macro Musings ! Join the Macro...

Luca Fornaro on Hysteresis, Endogenous Growth, and Aggregate Demand Policies

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Luca Fornaro is a senior researcher at CREI and professor at both UPF and the Barcelona School of Economics. In Luca’s first appearance on the show, he discusses his expansive work on, hysteresis, stagnation traps, endogenous growth, aggregate demand policies, the medium run, population growth and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on April 23th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Follow Luca on X: Check out our new AI chatbot: the ! Join the new Macro Musings ! Join the...

Adam Ozimek on Reforming the High-Skilled Immigration Process

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Adam Ozimek is the Chief Economist at the Economic Innovation Group. Adam returns to the show to discuss the importance of reforming the high-skilled immigration process, the main bottlenecks with our current green card system, the glory days of economics blogging, how to revitalize the American heartland, Trump’s current trade war, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on April 15th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Follow Adam on X: Check out our new AI chatbot: the ! Join the...

Skanda Amarnath on the Future of the Federal Reserve and its Framework

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America. Skanda returns to the show to discuss the standing of Humphrey’s Executor, the prospects for the Fed’s Framework Review, the case for NGDP Targeting, and much more. Check out the for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on April 16th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Follow David Beckworth on X: Follow the show on X: Follow Skanda on X: Check out our new AI chatbot: the ! Join the new Macro Musings ! Join the Macro Musings Check out our Macro Musings to David's new BTS YouTube...

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Lorie Logan is an executive vice president in the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that role, she’s the manager of the System Open Market Account (SOMA), for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), and she is also the head of the market operations, monitoring, and analysis. Lorie joins Macro Musings to talk about the operations side of monetary policy and her work at the New York Fed. Specifically, David and Lorie discuss the “dash for cash” during the March 2020 Treasury market crisis, the Fed’s new standing repo facility, the future of the central bank’s balance sheet, and more.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Lorie’s New York Fed profile: https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/logan

Lorie’s Fed in Print archive: https://fedinprint.org/search?facets[]=authors_literal_array:Logan%2C+Lorie

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