The Archive
Nearly three hundred long-form conversations — money, culture, power, and human flourishing, at the length the ideas require.
All Episodes
08/01/2019
Guest(s): Kevin Freeman
For decades, the U.S. has given China preferred trade & economic status. In a long overdue effort, President Trump is now negotiating new and more balanced trade deals with China, but however effective new trade deals will prove to be, they cannot address the…
06/27/2019
Guest(s): Jay Richards
Economics as a discipline suffers from “physics envy” when it tries and fails to build mathematical models of the economy and society. Instead, it should be studying human behavior and focus on the intersection of health, morality, philosophy, wealth creation and how to bring…
06/27/2019
Guest(s): Jay Richards
We know from history and evidence all around us, which economic system works, and which one makes people the happiest. It's the economic system of free enterprise. But is it the most moral? Bill Walton explores the question with Jay Richards, author of the…
06/06/2019
Guest(s): George Selgin
If the Fed brought home a report card reflecting its performance since its creation in 1914, its parents would not be pleased. Its record for stability is among the worst in the developed world, and it has done little to fix the problems it…
05/09/2019
Guest(s): Chen Guangcheng
Americans' theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. "You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat…
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…
04/25/2019
Guest(s): Jonathan Williams
There are right ways for states to manage their economies - and some very wrong ones. So if you wanted to make your state more prosperous, wouldn’t it be helpful to have the tools to determine how it will perform years into the future?…
04/18/2019
Guest(s): Ron Nicol
We had the good fortune to have Ron Nicol and Edwin Meese on The Bill Walton Show the day the Mueller report was released. Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General, says Robert Mueller should have made a decision on obstruction of justice by the…
