Coffee and Tea Audio Podcasts

China and India: Past and Future (Audio)

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:13:32 -0700

The ongoing industrial revolutions in China and India are the most remarkable and wonderful things seen in recent economic history. The future looks relatively bright.

Income Inequality since the 1980s (Audio)

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:54:49 -0700

Income inequality in America has taken an enormous leap upwards since the mid-1980s, leaving us today with a society that is as unequal as America was in the pre-Great Depression Gilded Age.

The Federal Reserve and the Great Depression (Audio)

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:22:46 -0700

Did the Federal Reserve fall down on the job and fail to do what it could to stem the Great Depression? Yes. Would things have been better if had there been no Federal Reserve at all? Definitely not.

Nickel and Dimed (Audio)

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:15:26 -0800

USUALLY I am a great fan of Barbara Ehrenreich. But I did not like her book "Nickel and Dimed." I did not like it because of its politics--or, rather, because of its anti-politics, because of its political passivity...

Globalization, China, and America's Workers (Audio)

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:09:06 -0800

JEFF Faux and I are talking past each other because we disagree on what the world we live in is like...

Cuba--The Reign of the Castro Brothers (Audio)

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:03:40 -0700

MANY praise Cuba for having such a high level of social development for a country whose economy is in such sad shape. But back in 1957 Cuba was a developed, not an underdeveloped country--it ought today to look like Italy, Spain, Portugal, or Puerto Rico, and it doesn't. Thanks to the dictatorship of the Castro brothers.

Keynes's Tract on Monetary Reform (Audio)

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:45:06 -0700

JOHN Maynard Keynes's "Tract on Monetary Reform" may be his best book. It is certainly his best Monetarist book...

How Rich Is Fitzwilliam Darcy? (Audio)

Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:25:51 -0800

AT the end of Jane Austen's early-nineteenth century novel, "Pride and Prejudice," the hero Fitzwilliam Darcy proposes to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and Elizabeth's mother goes berserk...