Mike Bird on the Land Trap and How the History of Housing Impacts the Global Economy

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain 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 Beckworth,

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  a senior research fellow with the Mercatus 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 Mike Bird.

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  Mike is the Wall Street editor for The Economist magazine and formerly was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

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  Mike has a new book hot off the press that is titled The Land Trap,

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  a new history of the world's oldest asset,

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  and he joins us today to discuss it and the history of land and its role in the global economy.

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  Mike, welcome back to the program.

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  David, thank you very much for having me back on again.

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  That's great to have you on now.

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  You've been on two times.

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  So you first appeared way back in 2018 a few years after the podcast got started So you're one of the early pioneers to help make their show.

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  So thanks to you Mike and in 2019 you returned and Now you have your own podcast.

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  Tell us about your podcast I do.

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  I'm one of the presenters where there's three of us, but we present Money Talks,

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  which is the flagship business finance and economics podcast for the Economist magazine.

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