Guest
John Tamny is a senior fellow in economics at Reason Foundation, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM).
Biography
John Tamny is a senior fellow in economics at Reason Foundation, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM). A spin-off of the policy website RealClearPolitics, RCM seeks to compile top-quality information and opinion about the stock markets and global economy. Mr. Tamny frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph. He’s the author of Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter Books, 2016), along with Popular Economics (Regnery, 2015). He’s a weekly guest on Forbes on Fox. His next book is The End of Laziness.
Prior to his present work, John worked in private wealth management for Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. He received a BA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.
Together on the Show
12 conversations
11/30/2022
Guest(s): John Tamny
In 1974, with annual inflation raging over 12%, President Gerald Ford introduced WIN (“whip inflation now”) buttons telling Americans: “To help increase food and lower prices, grow more and waste less. To help save scarce fuel in the energy crisis, drive less, heat less.”…
06/07/2022
Guest(s): John Tamny
In this episode, my friend John Tamny interviews me about legendary Wall Street leader and Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman’s book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. There are many fascinating insights and lessons in Steve’s book which we can all benefit…
05/10/2022
Guest(s): John Tamny
Author John Tamny joins me on this episode for a freewheeling back and forth about some of today’s big concerns. John, a free market fundamentalist and original thinker, almost always has a contrarian take on things. John’s books include Who Needs the Fed, When…
10/26/2021
Guest(s): John Tamny
It’s almost two years on from the onset of the Covid virus and we know a lot now that we didn’t then. Society should be healing. But we live in vitriolic and partisan times, and widespread disagreement abounds about what it was, what it…
01/29/2021
Guest(s): John Tamny
As we start a new year, I’m joined by my friend John Tamny with Freedom Works and Real Clear Markets to recap the events of the past month. We talk about the unrest at the U.S. Capitol, the first days of President Biden‘s administration,…
09/22/2020
Guest(s): John Tamny
Talking with John Tamny about his upcoming book “When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason.” His premise, and I agree, is that experts aren’t the answer to crisis, they are the crisis. What was needed at the…
09/19/2020
Guest(s): John Tamny
It’s Saturday in September and there’s no Big Ten football being played today. But in a not-so-surprising reversal, just weeks after Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pointedly said the decision not to play this year would “not be revisited”, they revisited. They just…
05/07/2019
Guest(s): John Tamny
Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn't that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral…
05/07/2019
Guest(s): John Tamny
Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn't that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral…
09/27/2018
Guest(s): John Tamny
Lower taxes and less regulation are great for business, but some are thriving in high-tax states like New York and California. On my new podcast, Ralph Benko explains the “Tamny Axiom”. Hint: there’s something more valuable in those states than low taxes.
01/11/2018
Guest(s): John Tamny
John discusses his new book, The End of Work, and the importance of finding a vocation you love.
07/27/2017
Guest(s): John Tamny
The Bill Walton Show: Episode 07 - Political economist John Tamny flips the tables on Bill and interviews the man behind the podcast.
