Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFormer US Senator Phil Gramm on Inequality Fallacies and How Economic Freedom Creates Growth | Hoover Institution
Episode 75
Jon Hartley and Phil Gramm discuss Graham’s career as an academic economist at Texas A&M, his service in the US House of Representatives and in the U…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
A History of the West After Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations With Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution
Episode 74
Jon Hartley and Niall Ferguson explore Niall's career, the power of networks in his books The House of Rothschild volume one (1998) and volume two (1…
5 months, 1 week ago
Reducing the Fed’s Balance Sheet With Fed Board Governor Stephen Miran | Hoover Institution
Episode 73
Jon Hartley and Stephen Miran discuss Stephen’s new paper on strategies to reduce the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, the state of inflation and the…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Banking Systems and Crises from Deposit Insurance to Stablecoins with Charles Calomiris | Hoover Institution
Episode 72
Jon Hartley and Charles Calomiris discuss banking crises, the Diamond-Dybvig model, deposit insurance, the history of bailouts and public subsidies …
6 months ago
Is Miami Becoming Wall Street South? With Citadel Securities President Jim Esposito | Hoover Institution
Episode 71
Jon Hartley and Jim Esposito discuss Jim’s beginnings, his career in senior roles at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, and moving to Miami to run…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The White House vs. Industry Titans: A History of American Power Struggles with Tevi Troy | Hoover Institution
Episode 70
Jon Hartley and Tevi Troy discuss Tevi’s career as a Presidential historian, serving in a variety of roles in the George W. Bush administration inclu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Two Crises, Lasting Impact: How 1929 and 2008 Still Shape Finance | Hoover Institution
Episode 69
Jon Hartley and Andrew Ross Sorkin discuss Andrew’s career as a journalist, Andrew’s recent book 1929 and how the events between the 1929 Wall Street…
8 months ago
Why Does Europe Struggle with Innovation? With Luis Garicano | Hoover Institution
Episode 68
Jon Hartley and Luis Garicano discuss Luis’s career, including his time as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, his research …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Matteo Maggiori on China, Geoeconomics and Exchange Rates | Hoover Institution
Episode 66
Jon Hartley and Matteo Maggiori discuss Matteo’s career on going from trading at JP Morgan to becoming an academic economist, the rise of China’s eco…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Origins of Inflation Targeting in New Zealand with Don Brash | Hoover Institution
Episode 65
Don Brash on his career as a central banker at the helm of New Zealand’s central bank, helping to start inflation targeting in New Zealand, his time …
9 months, 4 weeks ago