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Lucas and Luna dissect the machinery of public finance — how governments borrow, spend, and tax — without the political theater. Each episode examines a single fiscal lever: a stimulus check's ripple through consumer debt, the bond market's reaction to a budget deficit, or the real cost of infrastructure spending. Lucas traces the Treasury's cash flows with a fountain pen across an abstract budget breakdown, while Luna presses on the human outcomes: which households actually benefit from a child tax credit, why a state's pension gap widens, or how procurement rules inflate the price of a new highway. The show serves economists, policy analysts, and investors who need to understand fiscal reality as it unfolds — not as campaign slogans. Expect granular case studies, from Japan's lost-decade stimulus to the U.S. inflation reduction act's supply-chain effects, with both hosts citing specific CBO scores, IMF working papers, and Federal Reserve research. They never forecast without data, never moralize, and never reduce a trillion-dollar decision to a soundbite. By the end, you'll know why the yield curve inverted — and why it matters for the next round of municipal bonds you're holding.
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Why do government IT projects routinely blow past their budgets by 10x or more? In this episode, Lucas and Luna drill into the specific case of California's MyCalPAYS system—a $9 million payroll project that ballooned to
In this episode of The Fiscal Policy Podcast, Lucas and Luna uncover a bizarre quirk in government healthcare spending: federal programs like Medicare and the VA can pay wildly different prices for the exact same prescri
Episode 30 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast investigates a strange but costly inefficiency: government health programs in the US often pay far more for the exact same generic drugs than private insurers do. Lucas breaks down
In an era of Venmo and FedNow, the U.S. federal government still issues over 140 million paper checks each year. Lucas and Luna dig into why — from the Treasury's legacy payment systems to the 1.2 million Americans who r
Episode 28 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast uncovers a strange asymmetry in US government spending: the Department of Veterans Affairs pays dramatically less for prescription drugs than Medicare Part D does — sometimes two t
The US Treasury issues roughly $1.5 trillion in new debt every year. Most people never think about how that actually works. In this episode, Lucas and Luna walk through the Treasury's regular auction cycle — the schedule
When officials in rural Douglas County, Oregon, faced a $2 million shortfall in 2023, they did something unusual: they opened the books to a citizen audit committee. This episode follows how a group of retired accountant
Episode 25 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast digs into the quiet machinery of government loan guarantees — the kind that back mortgages, student debt, and small business lending. Lucas and Luna trace the $2.3 trillion in cont
Episode 24 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast digs into a hidden drain on public budgets: unused software licenses. Lucas and Luna reveal that governments at all levels collectively waste billions of dollars annually on softwa
Episode 23 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast examines the delicate art of pension discount rate assumptions. Lucas and Luna dissect how a one-percentage-point change in the assumed rate of return can swing a city's reported l
Episode 22 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast digs into a strange but massive line item in federal budgets: intragovernmental payments. Every year, the U.S. Treasury pays itself hundreds of billions of dollars in interest on t
Economist John Cochrane argues that fiscal stimulus has a lower multiplier than most policymakers assume. This episode drills into one overlooked mechanism: when the government borrows to spend, it crowds out private inv
Episode 20 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast dives into the quiet scandal of official revenue forecasts: the ones governments use to build their budgets. Lucas and Luna walk through how the US Congressional Budget Office, sta
Lucas and Luna unpack the fiscal multiplier—the concept that every dollar the government spends should generate more than a dollar of economic activity. But recent data from the Congressional Budget Office and academic s
Every year, governments around the world appropriate billions of dollars for projects that never break ground. Lucas and Luna explore the strange economics of 'zombie appropriations' — budget line items that persist year
Episode 17 of The Fiscal Policy Podcast dives into a wonky but crucial question: why do most governments still budget on a cash basis when every private company uses accrual accounting? Lucas and Luna walk through a conc
When the US government wants to get rid of surplus property — old office furniture, decommissioned vehicles, seized assets — it doesn't just throw them away. It runs a massive, little-known auction system managed by the
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden economics of government travel reimbursement rates, or per diems. Using the US General Services Administration's 2026 figures for Washington DC — $316 per day for lodging and meals — the
Municipal bonds are the building blocks of American infrastructure, but the credit ratings on them are often surprisingly misleading. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025 paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of
The US Department of Defense has never passed a full financial audit. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why the largest single organization in the federal budget can't account for trillions of dollars — and what tha
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