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  • Adam Ozimek on Reforming the High-Skilled Immigration Process
    2025/05/12

    Adam Ozimek is the Chief Economist at the Economic Innovation Group. Adam returns to the show to discuss the importance of reforming the high-skilled immigration process, the main bottlenecks with our current green card system, the glory days of economics blogging, how to revitalize the American heartland, Trump’s current trade war, and much more.

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    Recorded on April 15th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:00:50) – Blogging Days

    (00:02:33) – How to Fix High-Skilled Immigration

    (00:27:08) – Busting the Myths

    (00:33:58) – Additional Parts of Adam’s Immigration Proposal

    (00:40:13) – Trump’s Trade War

    (00:58:25) – Outro

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    59 分
  • Skanda Amarnath on the Future of the Federal Reserve and it’s Framework
    2025/05/05

    Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America. Skanda returns to the show to discuss the standing of Humphrey’s Executor, the prospects for the Fed’s Framework Review, the case for NGDP Targeting, and much more.

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    Recorded on April 16th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:02:01) – Humphrey’s Executor

    (00:12:35) – The Fed’s Framework Review

    (00:37:18) – Fed’s Communication

    (00:47:36) – Productivity

    (00:59:07) – Outro

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  • Andy Levin on Holding the Fed Accountable
    2025/04/28

    Andy Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and longtime advisor to many central banks. Andy returns to the show to discuss his policy brief on holding the Fed accountable for its spending practices.

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    Recorded on April 9th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:00:50) – Andy’s Professional Background

    (00:02:07) – Overstaffed or Overworked?

    (00:04:09) – The Fed’s Extraordinary Independence

    (00:10:10) – Inspector Generals and the Fed

    (00:20:33) – The Fed’s Workers and Payroll

    (00:37:35) – Updates to the Fed’s Headquarters

    (00:48:24) – Other Fed Challenges

    (00:56:26) – How to Improve the Fed

    (00:58:24) – Outro

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    59 分
  • Kathryn Judge on the Importance of Emergency Lending Facilities at the Federal Reserve
    2025/04/21

    Kathryn Judge is a law professor at Columbia University and a legal scholar of the Federal Reserve and financial policy. Kathryn returns to the show to discuss the Fed’s Emergency Lending Facilities, or 13(3) and current happenings at the Federal Reserve.

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    Recorded on March 27th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:01:43) – History of Section 13(3)

    (00:03:55) – Increasing Use of 13(3)

    (00:06:55) – Unusual and Exigent Circumstances

    (00:08:53) – Changes to 13(3)

    (00:13:17) – Classification of the Facilities

    (00:21:13) – Should the Fed Be Doing Emergency Lending?

    (00:25:42) – Feature or Bug?

    (00:33:19) – Fed Independence

    (00:47:45) – Regionalism of the Fed

    (00:55:23) – Outro

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    56 分
  • Paul Blustein on the Rise, Dominance, and Current Challenges to King Dollar
    2025/04/14

    Paul Blustein is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal journalist who has authored several acclaimed books on global economic institutions. In Paul’s first appearance on the show, he discusses the historical rise of the dollar, it’s present-day power, how it compares to other global currencies, current challenges to its power, the rise of crypto, and much more.

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    Recorded on March 26th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:00:52) – Paul’s Books

    (00:05:08) – Motivations for King Dollar

    (00:09:02) – History of the Dollar

    (00:12:57) – Nixon Shock of 1971

    (00:23:36) – Paul Volcker

    (00:33:14) – Dollar Dominance and Statecraft

    (00:40:46) – What About the Euro?

    (00:44:42) – Cryptocurrency as a Rival to the Dollar

    (00:47:54) – Drawbacks of Dollar Dominance

    (00:57:03) – Outro

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    58 分
  • Bill Nelson on the Future of Central Bank Operating Systems
    2025/04/07

    Bill Nelson is a Chief economist and an executive vice president at the Bank Policy Institute. Bill returns to the show to discuss the changes at many central banks around the world from a supply-driven floor system to a demand-driven floor system and how the Fed has been resistant to this change.

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    Recorded on March 6th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:01:35) – Trend Toward a Demand-Driven Ceiling System

    (00:07:32) – Will the Fed Follow Suit?

    (00:13:11) – Bank of England’s New Policy Implementation Framework

    (00:21:33) – Bill’s Suggestions for the Fed’s Implementation Framework

    (00:39:18) – Responding to Lorie’s Case for the Floor System

    (00:59:11) – Outro

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  • Scott Lincicome on the Trump Trade War
    2025/03/31

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    Scott Lincicome is the vice president of general economics and trade at Cato. Scott returns to the program to discuss the past, present, and future of Trump’s trade war, the impact of tariffs on the US consumer, myths about globalization, the state of globalization worldwide, and much more.

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    Recorded on March 19th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:01:01) – Cato’s Trade Center

    (00:04:06) – Current State of Trump’s Trade War

    (00:14:09) – Trade War Strategy

    (00:20:48) – Break in the Globalization Trend

    (00:29:51) – Bilateral Trade Deficit View

    (00:54:01) – Comparative Advantage

    (01:00:30) – How to Support Free Trade

    (001:01:44) – Outro

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  • Lyman Stone on Demographic and Marriage Decline
    2025/03/24

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    Lyman Stone is a demographer and the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. In Lyman’s first appearance on the show, he discusses demographic and marriage decline, the fallacy in the thinking of degrowthers, the benefits of pronatalist policy, and much more.

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    Recorded on February 13th, 2025

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    Timestamps:

    (00:00:00) – Intro

    (00:02:04) – Lyman Stone’s Career Path

    (00:04:54) – Demography as a Discipline

    (00:10:41) – Demographic Decline

    (00:15:28) – Decline of Marriage

    (00:32:24) – Degrowthers

    (00:43:15) – Possible Policy Solutions

    (00:54:50) – Outro

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    56 分