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Inflation, Past and Present: A Conversation with Tyler Goodspeed
Episode 4
We all know that things are a little more expensive when we head to the grocery store. But what does inflation actually mean? How did we get to where…
3 years, 5 months ago
Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 149
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone…
3 years, 6 months ago
Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
Episode 180
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decad…
3 years, 6 months ago
Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 71
Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) by Dr. Charles Read expose…
3 years, 6 months ago
Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 69
In Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale UP, 2023), distinguished economic historian Harold James offers a fresh perspec…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 68
Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems--coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins o…
3 years, 6 months ago
James J. Park, "The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 186
Public companies now face constant pressure to meet investor expectations. A company must continually deliver strong short-term performance every qua…
3 years, 6 months ago
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 135
Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this…
3 years, 7 months ago
Robert L. Hetzel, "Does the FOMC Have a Viable Strategy for Controlling Inflation?" (2023)
Episode 49
Robert L. Hetzel presented a paper at the Dallas Fed conference on February 9th, 2023 titled, “Does the Federal Open Market Committee Have a Viable S…
3 years, 7 months ago
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
Episode 127
In 2010, Ping An took over Shenzhen Development Bank, ending an experiment that had never been tried before, and not been tried since: a foreign comp…
3 years, 7 months ago