The Grumpy Economist
The Grumpy Economist Podcast
1) What’s in the reconciliation bill? A conversation with Casey Mulligan
The incentives and disincentives in the reconciliation bill.
2) The Long And Short Of Bubbles
A conversation on GameStop, social media, the stock market, and hedge funds with Wellington Management’s Owen Lamont.
3) A Free Market in … Vaccines?
How market forces could expedite the end of the COVID pandemic.
4) The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser
The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser.
5) The Urban Future
Does COVID spell the end of cities as we know them — or is an urban renaissance brewing?
6) Slouching Towards a Debt Crisis
With federal debt at 100% of GDP, a look at the potentially ominous consequences.
7) Dealing with Debt: Ideas from the Ridiculous to the Sublime
A critical analysis of Modern Monetary Theory -- and a look at the promise of perpetual bonds.
8) Welcome to the ‘Careful’ Economy
What the future looks like under a half-speed reopening.
9) Stop Parties, Not Production
How to reopen in the wake of COVID-19.
10) COVID on Campus
What the pandemic means for the future of American higher education.