Macro Musings with David Beckworth Podcast Transcripts
Mercatus Center at George Mason University · 570 episodes with transcripts
Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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Christina Skinner on the Financial Stability Oversight Council and Central Bank Independence
October 19, 2026
David Beckworth (0:02)
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.
David Beckworth (0:25)
Our guest today is Christina Skinner. Christina is a legal and financial scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Bank of England official, and just recently stepped down from Treasury as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the FSOC office. She joins us today to talk about Financial Stability and FSOC…
Christina Skinner (0:45)
Well, thank you so much for having me back. I love coming on the show. I love our conversations. And at some point, maybe we'll get to the fact that you came to visit me at Treasury and were a guest speaker for me. So you return the favor at least one time.
- Christina Skinner on the Financial Stability Oversight Council and Central Bank Independence
- John Rolle on The Bahamas' Fixed Exchange Rate and the First Nationwide Central Bank Digital Currency
- George Selgin on the New Deal and the History of Banking Crises
- Erik Thedéen on QE, Central Bank Independence, and Digital Payments
- Ellen Correia Golay on All-to-All Trading and Treasury Market Liquidity
- Nellie Liang on Stablecoins After GENIUS, Private Money, and the Global Dollar
- Stephen Miran on Regulatory Dominance, Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet, and the Return of Monetarism
- Barry Eichengreen, Paul Blustein, and Brendan Greeley on Dollar Dominance
- David Wessel on the Fed's Current Inflection Point
- Sam Lyman on the Digital Payments Race Between the US and China
- Stephan Luck on What History can Teach Us about Financial Stability
- Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies
- Yesha Yadav, Chris Odinet, and Andrea Tosato on the Moneyness of Stablecoins
- Jeffrey Lacker on What a New Fed Treasury Accord Might Look Like
- Nik Bhatia on Bitcoin and the Case for Using Stablecoins for Statecraft
- Bryan Cutsinger, Peter Ireland, and Will Luther on Lessons Learned from the Fed Framework Review
- Rich Clarida on Navigating Monetary Policy in Choppy Waters
- Bill Nelson on the Future of the Fed's Balance Sheet
- Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance
- 142 – Donald Kohn on Fed Policy from the 1970s to Today
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