2025-08-25
56 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 Beckwith,
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 Robin Brooks.
Robin is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and previously was the chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.
Robin also served at Goldman Sachs and the IMF.
Robin joins us today to discuss the dollar, the trade war,
geoeconomics, secondary tariffs on Russia, and the outlook for the U.S. economy.
Robin, welcome back to the show.
It's great to be here, Dave.
It's great to see you.
In person.
In person.
So we did a show back in March 2020, just as the pandemic was taking off.
And you were a machine during that time, if I remember correctly.
You had chart after chart, day after day, just prolific.
Do you remember those days of the pandemic?