2025-07-21
52 分钟Hey Macromusing listeners, this is your host David Beckworth.
This week's episode is number 500 and the Macromusing team is thrilled to reach this milestone.
It's hard to believe we've been doing this show since early 2016.
In commemoration of this moment,
we have recorded a video of myself and a special guest reflecting back on this journey.
The video is posted in my latest Substack newsletter,
so go check it out and subscribe if you haven't already.
Now onto the show.
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 Beckworth,
a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is George Hall.
George is Professor of Economics at Brandeis University and formerly an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
George has written widely on the history of US public finance and joins us today to discuss the lasting fiscal consequences of the US war on COVID.
George, welcome back to the program.
It's great to be back.
It's great to have you on.