2026-05-18
52 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 at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Bill Beach.
Bill is the executive director of the Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill.
Bill is also the former commissioner of labor statistics and head of the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the BLS.
Bill joins us today to talk about the fiscal health of the country,
as well as the best way to think about labor markets
and how to measure them.
Bill, welcome to the podcast.
It's just a great pleasure to be here.
I remember this podcast when it kind of got started.
I can't believe I'm sitting here talking to you.
Yeah, 10 years later.
In fact, we started here about the same time.