Apr 27, 2026

Basil Halperin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. In Basil’s first appearance on the show he discusses the famous but flawed Citrini essay, why Silicon Valley’s growth expectations aren’t showing up yet in interest rates, the impact of Less Than Zero by George Selgin, what the...

Apr 20, 2026

Rich Clarida was the vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is currently a professor of economics at Columbia University and a managing director at PIMCO. Rich returns to the program to discuss whether we give the Fed too little credit for its soft landing, the problem of persistent...

Apr 13, 2026

Kris Mitchener is a professor of economics at Santa Clara University and is an economic and monetary historian. In Kris’s first appearance on the show, he discusses how he fell in love with building data sets out of old dusty archives, the origins and fall of bimetallism, the pros and cons of the gold standard, the...

Apr 6, 2026

Steve Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. Mark Sobel is the US chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and is a veteran of the US Department of Treasury. Steve and...