Thursday, May 2, 2013

NEC #220 Dissenting View: The 2008 Financial Crisis

Peter J. Wallison, AEI
Peter Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Market Studies and co-director of American Enterprise Institute’s program on financial market de-regulation. Prior to joining AEI, he practices banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, DC and New York. He has held a number of government positions including, general counsel to the Treasury Department under Ronald Reagan, White House counsel to Ronald Reagan, and counsel to Nelson A. Rockefeller when he served as both New York governor and Vice President.
http://www.national-economists.org/podcasts/130502%20Wallison.mp3

Thursday, April 11, 2013

NEC #218 How has the Measured Unemployment Rate Performed during the Great Recession?

Keith Hall is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Prior to that he served as the thirteenth Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, held the title Chief Economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisors, and spent ten years at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
http://www.national-economists.org/podcasts/130411%20Hall.mp3

Thursday, March 14, 2013

NEC #217 Prospects for the Euro Area

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, with which he has been associated since 2002.  Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; and Columbia University in New York. His current research focuses on European economies and reform, pension systems and accounting rules, demographics, offshoring, high-skilled immigration, and the impact of information technology.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

NEC #216 History of the American Economy and Growth

Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., Editor of New American Contract and its blog Value Added, and a columnist for Salon Magazine.
http://www.national-economists.org/podcasts/130228%20Michael%20Lind.mp3

Thursday, January 24, 2013

NEC #215 Deficit Outlook and Negotiating Reductions Robert Litan, Bloomberg Government

Robert Litan is the director of research at Bloomberg Government.  Prior to Bloomberg Government, he was Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, where he oversaw research relating to entrepreneurship, and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.  At Brookings, Litan pursued a wide-ranging research agenda, which included topics in regulation, financial institutions, telecommunications, and general economic policy.
http://www.national-economists.org/podcasts/130124%20Litan.mp3