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Episode 289: Industrial Policy for Me but Not for Thee
Episode 292
The World Bank has spent three decades saying industrial policy is a bad way to go -- stunting growth, creating bad signals, and facilitating subopti…
3 hours ago
Episode 288: The Crazy Things People Say
Episode 291
Do financial transactions all add up to zero? Should we be more concerned with piety than technique? Is a business going out of business a good thing…
1 week, 2 days ago
Episode 287: What the Right Is Getting Wrong About AI
Episode 290
David is joined this week by a very special guest, Tim Estes, for a thorough discussion on artificial intelligence. But this is not one of those exha…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 286: Market Discipline: A Tour Around the Globe with Renè Aninao
Episode 289
David is joined by special guest Renè Aninao, of CORBU, for an invigorating discussion about the state of geopolitics, the Fed, markets, and more. Th…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 285: A Report Card on Corporate America
Episode 288
Some of the biggest companies in America are changing what they do with DEI, saying no the Human Rights Commission and the Southern Poverty Law Cente…
1 month ago
Episode 284: The Oren Cass Case for Central Planning Does Not Indict Wall Street for Anything
Episode 287
The New York Times published a long, redundant, somewhat odd screed from Oren Cass this weekend, bemoaning “financialization” and suggesting that Wal…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 283: A 7 Percent Growth Economy??
Episode 286
When economic analysis and partisan cheerleading get mixed together, one suffers, and the other becomes embarrassing. David dissects Kevin Hassett’s …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 282: Human Action in the Age of Isolation
Episode 285
We are living in a time period where humans are spending less time together than ever, and more and more mechanisms in the market are facilitating th…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 281: Market Discipline, Greenland, and President Trump
Episode 284
We all got a lesson this week in one of the most powerful forces in world history. It is maybe the most important political dynamic on the globe toda…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 280: Credit Card Cockamamie
Episode 283
The limit of a 10 percent interest rate on credit card debt is a perfect storm, an unintended consequence, a territory for bad policy. Since that Fri…
2 months ago