Money & Macro Talks

Jasper van Dijk from the Dutch Institute for Public Economics on why a lack of venture capital is NOT why Europe lacks big recent firms.

Interview with LSE professor Alan Manning about his recent book: Why Immigration Policy is Difficult and How to Make it Better.

Interview with the author of the book: Iran's Grand Strategy.

Discussion with Columbia university professor Sheri Berman on the history, characteristics and causes of populism.

Interview about a thought provoking paper analyzing thousands of CCP internal communications about what China wants on the world stage.

Interview with Notre Dame associate professor Alexander Kustov on the research he did for his book In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular

Interview with Madrid professor on Jan Stuhler about the effects of immigrants on labor markets.

Interview with professor Lane Kenworthy about whether or not inequality is really such a big problem as people think.

Interview with Bocconi professor Paolo Pinotti about the relationship between migration and crime.

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Interview with Dr. Wes Mitchell, who is the author of the book Great Power Diplomacy, The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger. He's also co-founder of the think tank, the Marathon Initiative, and, very relevant for this discussion, he was Assistant Secretary of State under the first Trump administration.

Professors Stacie Goddard (Wellesley college) and Abraham Newman (Georgetown University) explain their viral new Neo-Royalism theory that can explain Trump's strange actions with Joeri Schasfoort from Money & Macro.

In this episode of  Money & Macro Talks , writer  Alejandro Iribas De La Puerta  sits down with economist  Jens Ludwig  for a deep, evidence-driven conversation on how to truly reduce gun violence in America. Drawing on insights from his book,  The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence , Ludwig breaks down what interventions have actually worked, which policies have fallen short, and—mos...

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Tobias Gherke senior fellow on the European Council on Foreign relations about the Geo-Economics of critical minerals. We discuss what critical minerals are important, how China became so dominant, who the other major players are, and how the West can respond to China's dominance.

In this episode, I talk to financial journalist Thomas Bollen about how to reform our monetary financial system to reduce the need for bailouts. Check out Thomas's book in Dutch here: Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou, Thomas Bollen | 9789083398679 | Boeken | bol Or his work on mapping the monetary system: Waterworks of Money

Professor Jan Eeckhout makes his case about the profit paradox, which states that big companies are becoming too profitable. This is no longer good for the economy.

To join the village fundraiser, help send life changing cash and support research like this, visit https://www.givedirectly.org/macro/ Interview with Oxford prof Dennis Egger about his Econometrica paper: General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya, with   Johannes Haushofer ,  Edward Miguel ,  Paul Niehaus ,  Michael Walker

Interview with Philip Lane about the past & future of inflation & interest rates in the Eurozone.

I talked to Armenia's central bank governors Martin Galstyan & Armen Nurbekyan about (1) how the history of central banking in Armenia led to them adopting a systematic approach to monetary policy, (2) how this then led them to adopt this new scenario based approach, (3) how that differs from what other central banks do, and (3) finally what scenarios the governors are now considering for...

I talked to professor Stephanie Kelton about whether or not Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is still relevant today; how well her book the Deficit Myth is holding up, what caused the inflation spike, whether central banks are the ones driving inflation down, what the role of the government should be in controlling inflation, and how MMT applies to non-reserve currency countries like the UK.

I talked to FT CEO John Ridding about how the FT transitioned from a British oriented physical newspaper to a globally oriented digital one. We also discuss who reads the FT, what it's business model is, the role of A.I. in journalism, and how the FT strives to combine quality journalism with a viable business.

In this episode I talked to Evelien Witlox, who is the Digital Euro program director at the European Central bank, about why we need a digital Euro. How will it work? How will it impact the financial system? We also discussed concerns around privacy, programmable money, and the continued availability of cash.

In this episode I’m interviewing Jeff Snider, host of the Eurodollar University podcast, about the importance of the Eurodollar market and true monetary principles.

In this episode I talk with Patrick Boyle about the multiple crises in the financial sector; i.e. in the emergent markets, crypto and stockmarket. 

In this episode I talk with Nevin Freeman about the potential of cryptocurrencies as reserve currencies.