Education

For funds, central banks, and government agencies building a sharper, more structured way of working with macro inside their own teams.

The Work

Macro is learned through use, not explanation. The teaching is hands-on — working directly in Python, with real data and real workflows, building from simple relationships toward the systems and scenario thinking that decisions actually rest on. The emphasis is less on the techniques themselves than on the harder problem behind them: how a practitioner learns to use them well. It's taught by someone who has built and run these systems for real, and published the methods — not relayed them from a textbook.

The current focus — and the part that most sets this apart — is building AI into macro research itself. Not better prompts: the engineering underneath. The teaching moves from prompt engineering to context engineering and agent-based workflows — assembling systems that pull data, run analysis, and carry real macro research, with models wired to live data and tools through MCP. The shorthand is AI macro research systems, and they're taught by someone who builds and runs them.

That's a different thing from the AI courses aimed at general audiences. This is frontier tooling in the hands of a macro practitioner, pointed at the work economists and analysts actually do.

The Proof

I've spent two decades developing curriculum, in the university and for professionals — including the curriculum that trained staff economists at the IMF. I've built capability directly with teams at investment firms, central banks, and government agencies, in person and online, and across the client base of Haver Analytics. And as Professor of Practice in applied econometrics and forecasting at the Colorado School of Mines, I teach this in the university as well as in the field.

The Engagement

The format is small-group and hands-on, delivered in person or online and scoped to a team's level and the problems they work on. Specific programs and sessions are scheduled as they're built — the next generation, AI-integrated throughout, is in development now.

If you're building macro capability into your team, tell me what you're working toward and we'll find the right shape for it.