The Grumpy Economist

By Hoover Institution

What's The Grumpy Economist about?

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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The Grumpy Economist episodes:

10.05.2021
What’s in the reconciliation bill? A conversation with Casey Mulligan
The incentives and disincentives in the reconciliation bill.
01.29.2021
The Long And Short Of Bubbles
A conversation on GameStop, social media, the stock market, and hedge funds with Wellington Management’s Owen Lamont.
01.20.2021
A Free Market in … Vaccines?
How market forces could expedite the end of the COVID pandemic.
10.29.2020
The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser
The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser.
09.16.2020
The Urban Future
Does COVID spell the end of cities as we know them — or is an urban renaissance brewing?
09.12.2020
Slouching Towards a Debt Crisis
With federal debt at 100% of GDP, a look at the potentially ominous consequences.
06.13.2020
Dealing with Debt: Ideas from the Ridiculous to the Sublime
A critical analysis of Modern Monetary Theory -- and a look at the promise of perpetual bonds.
05.29.2020
Welcome to the ‘Careful’ Economy
What the future looks like under a half-speed reopening.
05.07.2020
Stop Parties, Not Production
How to reopen in the wake of COVID-19.
05.01.2020
COVID on Campus
What the pandemic means for the future of American higher education.
04.17.2020
COVID Quandaries
The virus creates uncertainties around unemployment, civil liberties, and monetary policy.
04.09.2020
Thinking Through Phase II
What it will take to begin reopening the American economy.
04.01.2020
The Road to (Partially) Reopening America
The policies that can steer us back towards normality.
03.27.2020
Coronavirus and the Road to Recovery
How economic policy can help America bounce back — and how it can go wrong.
03.19.2020
Econ in the Time of Coronavirus
What are the limits of crisis measures?
03.18.2020
How We Broke (and May be Fixing) Housing
Government interventions have grossly distorted housing markets — but a promising new movement may counteract some of the damage.
03.12.2020
The Economics of a Pandemic
What can we do about the economic challenges posed by the coronavirus?
02.13.2020
The Inequality Obsession
In the inaugural installment of The Grumpy Economist podcast, John Cochrane explains why concerns over economic inequality in America are vastly overblown, why a wealth tax is an especially pernicious form of taxation, and why anxiety over the super-rich playing...

What's The Grumpy Economist about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Grumpy Economist episodes:

What’s in the reconciliation bill? A conversation with Casey Mulligan

The Long And Short Of Bubbles

A Free Market in … Vaccines?

The Future Of Cities. A Conversation With Harvard’s Ed Glaeser

The Urban Future

Slouching Towards a Debt Crisis

Dealing with Debt: Ideas from the Ridiculous to the Sublime

Welcome to the ‘Careful’ Economy

Stop Parties, Not Production

COVID on Campus

COVID Quandaries

Thinking Through Phase II

The Road to (Partially) Reopening America

Coronavirus and the Road to Recovery

Econ in the Time of Coronavirus

How We Broke (and May be Fixing) Housing

The Economics of a Pandemic

The Inequality Obsession