David Beckworth

EconomistModern

David Beckworth directs the monetary policy program at the Mercatus Center and hosts Macro Musings, a weekly podcast on monetary economics running since 2016. He is the leading public advocate of nominal GDP level targeting, a rule that holds the central bank to a stable path of total spending instead of year-by-year discretion. He wrote Boom and Bust Banking and served as an economist at the US Treasury.