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Monday, May 20, 2013

On my new Ricochet podcast, I chat with Erik Brynjolfsson, director of MIT’s Center for Digital Business at the Sloan School of Management. Brynjolfsson is also co-author, along with Andrew McAfee, of Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating … read more >

Pethokoukis

A chat with Richard Burkhauser on income inequality

James Pethokoukis | December 7, 2012, 12:32 pm

On my latest Ricochet Money & Politics Podcast, I chatted with Richard Burkhauser, economics professor at Cornell University. Prof. Burkhauser and his team at Cornell have done some amazing research that gives a much different perspective on the issue of income … read more >

Pethokoukis

Pethokoukis Podcast: A chat about Medicare reform with Joe Antos

James Pethokoukis | August 17, 2012, 10:38 am

On this week’s Ricochet Money & Politics Podcast, my guest is Joe Antos, Medicare guru here at AEI. What is Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan? What’s Mitt Romney’s? What’s President Obama’s? Antos gives a brisk tour of those plans, as well as … read more >

Pethokoukis

Pethokoukis Podcast: An interview with economist Scott Sumner on market monetarism

James Pethokoukis | August 9, 2012, 11:29 am

In this edition of my Ricochet-AEI podcast, I chat with economist Scott Sumner, professor of economics at Bentley University and author of the must-read TheMoneyIllusion blog. Professor Sumner is probably best known for his advocacy of “market monetarism,” a contrarian critique of the Federal … read more >

Pethokoukis

Yay the 1%! My chat with Ed Conard, author of ‘Unintended Consequences’

James Pethokoukis | July 10, 2012, 6:31 pm

Ricochet Money & Politics podcast: Earlier today, I chatted with Edward Conard, a former executive at Bain Capital and author of Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong. Conard explains why the U.S. economy needs … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Banter #42: The one about Iran’s nuclear capabilities

Andrew Rugg | February 3, 2012, 2:00 pm

In the 42nd episode of Banter, Maseh Zarif, AEI research manager and Iran team lead for the Critical Threats Project, talks with us about Iran’s current nuclear capabilities. Maseh lays out a chilling picture of Iran’s current capabilities, what Iran … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Banter #34: An interview with Grover Norquist

Stuart James | December 1, 2011, 1:58 pm

Grover Norquist of the Americans For Tax Reform joins guest host Daniel Hanson and I this week on Banter. We talk with Grover about the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and why he thinks it vital for America. We also get a chance to ask him his thoughts … read more >

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