David Beckworth
- Senior Research Fellow
David Beckworth is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a former international economist at the US Department of the Treasury. He is the author of Boom and Bust Banking: The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession. His research focuses on monetary policy, and his work has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Economist. He has advised congressional staffers on monetary policy and has written for Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, the New Republic, the Atlantic, and National Review. David also hosts the weekly Macro Musings podcast.
Publications & Appearances
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Steven Kelly on the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse and Its Implications for Financial Policy
Steven Kelly is a senior research associate at the Yale Program on Financial Stability and is a previous guest of the podcast…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Derek Tang on the Present and Future Landscape for Fed Policy and Politics
Derek Tang is the CEO and co-founder of LH Meyer, and is part of the research team based in Washington, D.C. where he forecasts…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Joey Politano on Fed Policy, Inflation, and the Current State of the US Economy
Joey Politano is an economist and commentator who writes regularly on his Substack newsletter titled, *Apricitas Economics.*…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Measuring Monetary Policy: the NGDP Gap
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Peter Conti-Brown on the Legal and Regulatory Issues Facing the Fed and Financial Markets
Peter Conti-Brown is an associate professor of financial regulation and legal studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is a…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
David Wilcox on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Crippling Costs of Default
David Wilcox is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and is the Director of…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Julie Hill on the History and Recent Developments of Fed Master Accounts
Julie Hill is a professor of law at the University of Alabama’s School of Law and she specializes in the study of the regulation…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs