2026-06-22
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 at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Jeffrey Lacker.
Jeff is the former president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank where he was president
from 2004 to 2017. He is also a colleague of mine here at the Mercatus Center.
And today we're going to talk about the Kevin Wash Fed,
what it might mean for a new Treasury Fed Accord and other developments in that space.
Jeff, welcome back to the podcast.
It's a pleasure, David.
It's great to have you on.
Now, just a little while ago, we were at the Hoover Monetary Policy Conference.
Yeah, Palo Alto, yeah, it was a great conference.
It's a great place.
I encourage everyone who can to go there if they get a chance.
But one of the big things that were discussed, and I definitely discussed around dinner tables,
hallway conversations, is what would a new Fed treasure record look like?
And we're going to talk about that today
because you actually had some great testimony that you did before Congress recently.