Matt Yglesias on *One Billion Americans*: New Ideas to Revitalize the American Economy

Matt Yglesias is the co-founder of Vox, a senior correspondent who focuses on politics and economic policy, and a returning guest to the podcast. Matt once again joins Macro Musings to discuss his new book, *One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.* Specifically, David and Matt talk about how to reinvigorate the economy; through enacting better housing and transportation policies, dramatically increasing immigration, reviving America’s forgotten cities, and more. Finally, they also discuss the Fed’s new average inflation targeting regime, and what kind of direction the Fed will take over the new few years.

 

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

 

Matt’s Twitter: @mattyglesias

Matt’s Vox profile: https://www.vox.com/authors/matthew-yglesias

Matt’s podcast: https://www.vox.com/the-weeds

 

Related Links:

 

*One Billion Americans: The Case For Thinking Bigger* by Matt Yglesias

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636499/one-billion-americans-by-matthew-yglesias/

 

David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David’s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/