2025-11-03
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 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 Brian Kutsinger.
Brian is a monetary historian and economist from Florida Atlantic University.
He's also a returning guest to the show.
Brian joins us today to discuss his latest work on growth-driven deflation in the late 19th century and its implications for policymakers today
as we head into a potentially growth-driven environment created by AI.
Brian, welcome back to the program.
David, so good to be with you.
So it's a real treat to get you back on the program.
I really encourage listeners to go back and check out the previous two programs with Brian.
The first one,
he joined me and talked about a paper where he looked at the public financing of the US Civil War,
specifically the Confederacy.
And ironically,
they actually did not maximize the senior rich flows they could have from their money printing,