Episodes
Monday Mar 19, 2012
MRW Podcast - Allan Meltzer (guest)
Monday Mar 19, 2012
Monday Mar 19, 2012
This week, Drew and Tim are joined by Allan Meltzer to discuss his new book Why Capitalism? Allan Meltzer is a professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He has served as a consultant for several Congressional committees; the President's Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the World Bank, foreign governments and central banks. He has been a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board. In 1988-89, he was an acting member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1986 to 2002, he was Honorary Adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan. In 1999-2000, he served as Chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, known as the Meltzer Commission. The Commission proposed major reforms of the International Monetary Fund and the development banks.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2012
MRW Podcast - Roger Bootle (guest)
Wednesday Jan 04, 2012
Wednesday Jan 04, 2012
This week, Drew is joined on the show by Roger Bootle, author of the book The Trouble With Markets. Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best known economists, having worked in or around the financial markets since 1978. As well as being Managing Director of Capital Economics, he is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist at HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of economic forecasters, the so-called “Wise Men”. He studied Economics at Oxford, and began his career in the academic world as a lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. Roger’s latest book, The Trouble with Markets, analyses the deep causes of the recent financial crisis and discusses the threats to capitalism arising from it.
Thursday Oct 27, 2011
MRW Podcast - Daryl Jones (guest)
Thursday Oct 27, 2011
Thursday Oct 27, 2011
This week, Drew is in studio interviewing Daryl Jones of HedgeEye.com.
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
MRW Podcast - Mark Gilbert (guest)
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
This week, Drew is joined by Mark Gilbert, London Bureau Chief of Bloomberg News and author of the book Complicit. They are discussing global economic issues.
Friday Jan 14, 2011
MRW Podcast - Steve Forbes (guest)
Friday Jan 14, 2011
Friday Jan 14, 2011
This week, Drew and Tim are joined by Steve Forbes, CEO and Publisher of Forbes Media and former presidential candidate.