A second conversation with economist John Cochrane BioJohn Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of The Grumpy Economist Blog. Before that John was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he’s taught both MBA and PhD programs. And a fellow of the Becker-Friedman Institute, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a past President and Fellow of the American Finance Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He’s served as the editor of numerous economics journals. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at MIT, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Times0:00 - Intro1:15 - Inflation, supply chain crisis & labor market shortages16:15 - Weird economic signals, looming recession?20:30 - Administrative state + government competence28:30 - Climate change37:30 - The media & censorship43:45 - Bitcoin50:00 - Central banks digital currencies1:00:30 - Government’s role in money1:07:00 - The relationship between debt & inflation1:19:00 - Stanford Free Speech / University of Austin1:33:00 - Nobel prize / institutional failure — rebuild or build anew? LinksThe Grumpy Economist blogGoodFellows podcast narrativemonopoly.com