2026-08-24
57 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 Ben Harris.
Ben is the Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.
He is also a veteran of the Treasury Department
and the Council of Economic Advisors and is a return guest to the show.
So check out his earlier appearance if you haven't already.
Ben, welcome back to the program.
Thanks for having me.
It's great to have you on.
It's about a year ago that you were on the show.
We had a great conversation then about all things fiscal.
We'll return to that topic because it hasn't gotten much better.
It's gotten worse probably.
It's gotten worse.
The outlook, and that's a big, big deal for us.
But you have a new perspective to shed on this, and that is what role AI can help play toward that.
But Ben, I have some other questions I want to raise with you because I was someone