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Scott Lincicome is the vice president of general economics and trade at Cato. Scott returns to the program to discuss the past, present, and future of Trump’s trade war, the impact of tariffs on the US consumer, myths about globalization, the state of globalization worldwide, and much more.

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Recorded on March 19th, 2025

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:01:01) – Cato’s Trade Center

(00:04:06) – Current State of Trump’s Trade War

(00:14:09) – Trade War Strategy

(00:20:48) – Break in the Globalization Trend

(00:29:51) – Bilateral Trade Deficit View

(00:54:01) – Comparative Advantage

(01:00:30) – How to Support Free Trade

(001:01:44) – Outro

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Lyman Stone is a demographer and the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. In Lyman’s first appearance on the show, he discusses demographic and marriage decline, the fallacy in the thinking of degrowthers, the benefits of pronatalist policy, and much more.

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Recorded on February 13th, 2025

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:04) – Lyman Stone’s Career Path

(00:04:54) – Demography as a Discipline

(00:10:41) – Demographic Decline

(00:15:28) – Decline of Marriage

(00:32:24) – Degrowthers

(00:43:15) – Possible Policy Solutions

(00:54:50) – Outro

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Athanasios Orphanides is a professor at MIT, formerly served at the Federal Reverse for 15 years, and was the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus. In Athanasios’s first appearance of show he discussed real-time monetary policy rules, their implication on the Fed’s framework review, his natural growth target, and much more.

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Recorded on February 18th, 2025

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Substack Announcement

(00:00:49) – Intro

(00:02:24) – Athanasios’ Career Journey

(00:06:08) – Real-Time Policy Rules

(00:23:36) – Potential Drawbacks of Monetary Rules

(00:28:46) – Natural Growth Targeting Rule

(00:37:31) – Federal Reserve’s Framework Review

(00:57:02) – Outro