Senator Pat Toomey on Fed Governance, Monetary Policy, and the future of Digital Assets

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain

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  and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,

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  present and future.

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  I am your host, David Beckwourth,

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  a senior research fellow at the Merketta center at George Mason University.

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  And I'm glad you decided to join us.

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  Our guest today is Senator Pat Toomey.

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  Senator Toomey served the state of Pennsylvania as a senator from 2011 to 2023.

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  During that time, Senator Toomey served on the Committee on Banking,

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  Housing and Urban affairs and was active in the debate on financial and monetary policy.

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  Senator Toomey joins us today to discuss these experiences and where he sees monetary policy,

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  fiscal policy headed in the next few years.

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  Welcome to the show, Senator.

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  Thanks, David.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  It's great to have you on.

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  And we have a connection.

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  Chris Russo was a former staff member of yours, a chief economist.

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  He was also a colleague of ours here at Mercatus.

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