The Debt Dialogues show

The Debt Dialogues

Summary: In this weekly podcast series, Don Watkins, fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, talks to a diverse range of guests about the welfare state crisis and what to do about it.

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Podcasts:

 Episode 44: Peter Schwartz on Paternalism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:43

In this episode, I interview ARI distinguished fellow Peter Schwartz on paternalism, altruism, and the welfare state.

 Episode 43: Peter Ferrara on Entitlement Reform | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:51

In this episode, I interview Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, on how to address the entitlement crisis.

 Episode 42: John Tamny on Inequality and CEO Pay | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:19

In this episode, I interview John Tamny, editor of RealClearMarkets, on his new book Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics.

 Episode 41: Jared Meyer on Washington's War on the Young | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:19

In this episode, I interview Jared Meyer, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and co-author of Dishinhereted: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young on how the regulatory-welfare state is harming younger Americans.

 Episode 40: William Voegeli on “Liberal Compassion” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:54

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Claremont Review of Books senior editor William Voegeli on his recent book The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion.

 Episode 39: Steven Horwitz on Inequality, Mobility and Being Poor in America | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:39

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Steven Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics and department chair at St. Lawrence University, on his new paper “Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America.”

 Episode 38: Phillip Magness on Thomas Piketty's Empirical Claims | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:59

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Phillip Magness, a policy historian and Academic Program Director at the Institute for Humane Studies, on the empirical problems with Thomas Piketty's book on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

 Episode 37: Daniel Mitchell on the OECD Inequality Study | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:53

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Cato senior fellow Daniel J. Mitchell on the OECD's study claiming that inequality harms economic growth, and that redistributive policies to fight inequality don't.

 Episode 36: Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the Fast Food Protests | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:23

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, on the demands by fast food workers for a $15 an hour minimum wage.

 Episode 35: Steve Simpson on Inequality, Democracy, and Money in Politics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:37

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Steve Simpson, director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute, on inequality, democracy, and money in politics.

 Episode 34: Stephen Moore on Taxes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:38

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Stephen Moore, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, on taxes.

 Episode 33: Scott Winship on Inequality and Economic Growth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:52

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Scott Winship, Manhattan Institute scholar, on inequality and economic growth.

 Episode 32: John Cochrane on Inequality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:31

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview John Cochrane on the campaign to limit economic inequality.

 Episode 14: Michael Cannon on Obamacare | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:06

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, Michael Cannon, on Obamacare and its effects on young Americans.  

 Episode 13: William Voegeli on the Welfare State | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:18

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview Claremont Review of Books senior editor William Voegeli on the question: “Why do people support the welfare state?”

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