The Grumpy Economist Podcast features Hoover Institution Senior Fellow John Cochrane offering analysis and commentary on the news of the day from a humorous free-market perspective.
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What’s in the reconciliation bill? A conversation with Casey Mulligan
2021/10/05
The incentives and disincentives in the reconciliation bill.
The Long And Short Of Bubbles
2021/01/29
A conversation on GameStop, social media, the stock market, and hedge funds with Wellington Management’s Owen Lamont.
A Free Market in … Vaccines?
2021/01/20
How market forces could expedite the end of the COVID pandemic.
The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser
2020/10/29
The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser.
The Urban Future
2020/09/16
Does COVID spell the end of cities as we know them — or is an urban renaissance brewing?
Slouching Towards a Debt Crisis
2020/09/12
With federal debt at 100% of GDP, a look at the potentially ominous consequences.
Dealing with Debt: Ideas from the Ridiculous to the Sublime
2020/06/13
A critical analysis of Modern Monetary Theory -- and a look at the promise of perpetual bonds.
Welcome to the ‘Careful’ Economy
2020/05/29
What the future looks like under a half-speed reopening.
Stop Parties, Not Production
2020/05/07
How to reopen in the wake of COVID-19.
COVID on Campus
2020/05/01
What the pandemic means for the future of American higher education.
COVID Quandaries
2020/04/17
The virus creates uncertainties around unemployment, civil liberties, and monetary policy.
Thinking Through Phase II
2020/04/09
What it will take to begin reopening the American economy.
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MoDOnTheBeat
2020/08/14
Delightful
As usual, great stuff from Dr Cochrane. Professor Cochrane does a wonderful job at making the economic literature accessible to the lay person and he ...
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2021/06/19
Kind of sort of
Interesting content just apparently not interested in regular updated podcasts
dennis.karpf
2020/06/13
Dennis Karpf
Fair minded, empirically fact based and self critical. An excellent, pithy economic podcast. Keep up the excellent work.
Mmmjjjbbbb
2020/03/31
Outstanding Info
These first few Grumpy Economist podcasts are excellent. Cochrane is clear, lucid, fun, and is a great explaining trade offs and other key concepts.
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kevbot84
2020/03/28
Best podcast ever
Informative, clear, well thought out. Best economist ever
MBCHOE
2020/03/19
Love the grumpy Economist
I love John Cochrane.
I read his blog and WSJ editorials.
A very nice and modest man who has great economic insight
Ivanbet
2020/03/03
More Episodes!!!!
What a great Podcast, I was in need for a serious point of view from the right wing perspective, this podcast delivers exactly that. More episodes, pl...
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Krhodes586
2020/02/25
Anything John Cochrane touches...
I’m delighted that Cochrane is allowing himself to be pushed into a podcast. Great stuff, keep it up!
Altarosk
2020/02/25
Great Podcast
John Cochrane is a very smart man that is able to easily explain economics in ways that other economists I respect and follow/listen cannot, such as T...
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WafflesMan
2020/02/25
Typical Hoover Institution lies and misrepresentations
Every economic assumption Cochrane makes redounds to the benefit of the ultrawealthy. And by the end, the real enemies of the economy are teachers mak...