2024-03-04
57 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 Peter Williams.
Peter is a managing director of macroeconomic research at 22 Volts research and formerly was at the IMF and World Bank.
Peter joins us today to provide a market perspective on interest rates, treasury markets, and monetary policy.
Peter, welcome to the show.
Thanks, David.
Great to finally be on.
Really nice to get to make an appearance.
Yes, it's great to have you on.
I have interacted with you for several years now on X, formally known as Twitter, and I gained a lot of wisdom from you because you're really good at modeling the macroeconomic issues.
I know when I had questions about term premiums or measuring our star, you were someone I could go to because you kind of knew the models in depth.
I mean, you knew the gory details of those models, and so you would help me better understand them myself.
So I'm delighted to have you on the program, that they will discuss that, some other things.
And this conversation is long overdue because we've been talking for a long time online.
Finally, I get you on the podcast.
So, Peter, tell us about your work, what you do and how you got there.
Yeah, so right now I'm managing director, sort of mostly focused on US macroeconomic and fed policy research here at 22 year research.
We're an independent kind of research shop, Wall street, along with, there's many other firms going to like us.