138 – Felix Salmon on Charitable Giving and Sovereign Debt
Felix Salmon is a financial journalist at Axios and the host of the Slate Money podcast. In this special holiday episode, Felix joins the show to discuss the economics of charitable giving and one of ...
24 Dec 20181h 1min
137 – Matt Mitchell on Rent-Seeking and Public Choice
Matt Mitchell is the director and senior research fellow at the Equity Initiative at the Mercatus Center. He joins the show today to talk about rent seeking and how it affects long term economic growt...
17 Dec 201856min
136 – Josh Galper on LIBOR, Overnight Lending, and the Lehman Brothers Collapse
Josh Galper is the managing principal of Finadium, an independent consultancy in capital markets with unique expertise in securities, finance, collateral, and derivatives. He joins the show today to t...
10 Dec 201850min
135 – Victoria Guida on Financial Regulation, Jay Powell, and Recent Fed Appointments
Victoria Guida is a reporter for Politico where she covers monetary policy and financial regulation, including extensive coverage of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the Treasury Department, and Congres...
3 Dec 201859min
134 – Neil Irwin on the Invisible Recession, Monetary Regimes, and the Current Issues Facing the Fed
Neil Irwin is a senior economics correspondent for the New York Times and was formerly a columnist at the Washington Post. He is the author of the book, *The Alchemist: Three Central Bankers and a Wor...
26 Nov 201856min
133 – Adam Ozimek on Population Growth, Declining Business Dynamism and Fed Policy
Adam Ozimek is a senior economist at Moody's Analytics where he covers U.S. labor markets and demographics while actively blogging and tweeting about a wide range economic issues. He joins the show to...
19 Nov 201859min
132 – Scott Sumner on the Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy, Ten Years Later after the Crisis
This week, Scott Sumner joins David Beckworth at the University of Texas at Austin for the Financial Crisis Symposium: "Ten Years Later: What Does the Data Say?" hosted by the Center for Enterprise an...
12 Nov 20181h 8min
131 – Mike Derby on Recent Economic Trends, Normalizing Monetary Policy and More
Mike Derby is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who covers the Federal Reserve. He joins the show today to talk about his coverage of recent developments in the economy and in Fed policy. David a...
5 Nov 201857min
