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078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets Work, the Mortgage Crisis and How We Pay for Health Care

078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets Work, the Mortgage Crisis and How We Pay for Health Care

FromEconomic Rockstar


078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets Work, the Mortgage Crisis and How We Pay for Health Care

FromEconomic Rockstar

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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Mar 24, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Arnold Kling is a Mercatus Center–affiliated senior scholar at George Mason University and a member of the Financial Markets Working Group.
Arnold specializes in housing-finance policy, financial institutions, macroeconomics, and the inside workings of America’s federal financial institutions. He also is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
He has authored five books, including Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care and Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story of How Markets Work.
Arnold has published articles in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Forbes, among others, and he blogs at arnoldkling.com/blog/.
Previously, Arnold served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac and a staff economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
He started Homefair, one of the first commercial websites on the Internet.
Arnold Kling received his PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Check out the show notes page with all links and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/arnoldkling
Released:
Mar 24, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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