
Free The Economy
Free The Economy is a weekly podcast hosted by Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, examining the intersection of news, policy, and economics featuring guests that include writers, policymakers, explorers, contrarians, and free thinkers of all kinds.
Free The Economy
Inflation and Bidenomics with Kurt Couchman
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Episode 82
This week we cover Capital One buying Discover, solutions for high housing prices, China’s soft-power investment strategy, and President Biden’s call for national rent control. Our interview this week is with Kurt Couchman, senior fellow at Americans for Prosperity. We’ll talk about shrinkflation, government spending, growing deficits, the cost-of-living crisis, and how inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.Free the Economy is produced and hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with the show by following us on Twitter at @freethe_economy and read our episode summaries, with links to the stories we cover, at cei.org/blog.