The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast

Crypto, Housing, and Banking Regulation with French Hill | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and US House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. French Hill discuss Congressman Hill’s background; regulation on housing supply and the recently passe

The US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege and The International History of Reserve Currencies with Barry Eichengreen | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Barry Eichengreen discuss his background and research, the status of the US dollar as a world reserve currency, the yuan’s inability to gain traction desp

Michael Boskin on American Economic Policy Since Reagan | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Michael Boskin discuss Michael’s upbringing in Los Angeles, his seminal academic work on savings, working on Governor Ronald Reagan’s tax reform task forc

Grover Norquist on Reagan-Bush-Trump Tax Reforms and America’s Fiscal Future | Hoover Institution

For more than four decades, Grover Norquist has been one of the most influential figures in the American conservative movement on tax policy and limited government. In th

Dr. Oz On Affordability, Fighting Fraud, and AI in Healthcare | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Dr. Oz along with his two deputies discuss running the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) which administers the major federal government healt

Business Cycles, Growth, Misallocation, and AI with Pete Klenow | Hoover Institution

Pete Klenow has spent his career tackling some of economics’ biggest questions: Why do some countries grow rich while others remain poor? What drives long-run prosperity?

Economic Freedom and Market Reforms in Latin America With Sebastian Edwards | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Sebastian Edwards discuss Edward’s time at the University of Chicago as a PhD student in the time of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, Chile’s marke

Former US Senator Phil Gramm on Inequality Fallacies and How Economic Freedom Creates Growth | Hoover Institution

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 US Senate, and his wor

A History of the West After Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations With Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution

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 (1999), and The Square

Reducing the Fed’s Balance Sheet With Fed Board Governor Stephen Miran | Hoover Institution

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 labor market in the

Banking Systems and Crises from Deposit Insurance to Stablecoins with Charles Calomiris | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Charles Calomiris discuss banking crises, the Diamond-Dybvig model, deposit insurance, the history of bailouts and public subsidies for banking, the histo

Is Miami Becoming Wall Street South? With Citadel Securities President Jim Esposito | Hoover Institution

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 one of the world’s l

The White House vs. Industry Titans: A History of American Power Struggles with Tevi Troy | Hoover Institution

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 including as White House D

Andrew Ross Sorkin on Two Crises, Lasting Impact: How 1929 and 2008 Still Shape Finance | Hoover Institution

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 crash and 1933 resha

Why Does Europe Struggle with Innovation? With Luis Garicano | Hoover Institution

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 on firms, Europe’s st

Matteo Maggiori on China, Geoeconomics and Exchange Rates | Hoover Institution

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 economy, geoeconomics an

The Origins of Inflation Targeting in New Zealand with Don Brash | Hoover Institution

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 as a politician and l

Property Rights and the UCLA School of Economics with David Henderson | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and David Henderson discuss David’s career as an economist, the role of property rights and market competition in economic growth, as well as the UCLA School

George Tavlas on the History of Monetarism | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and George Tavlas discuss George’s career as an economist, including as a central banker at the Bank of Greece, the history of monetarism (including George’s

Cliff Asness on Factor Investing and the History of Financial Economics | Hoover Institution

Jon Hartley and Cliff Asness discuss his time as a graduate student under Eugene Fama at the University of Chicago, his career at Goldman Sachs, and founding AQR, factor-