I interview Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, and we talk about Supply Side Economics, why it is still relevant today, the current economic landscape including Globalization, the next crash, the impact of cryptocurrencies, and a little bit about how it was to work in the Reagan Era.
1) What is Supply Side Economics - https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-c...
2) Theory and Results - https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017...
3) My time with Supply Side Economics - https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2003...
4) What really happened in 1981 ? - https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2000...
0:00 Preview2:15 Intro2:55 What is Supply Side Economics?6:10 Marginal Tax Rate8:10 Stagflation10:57 Summary11:30 Tax Cuts13:20 Regulation17:24 Lobbying20:42 Deficits28:20 The next crash ?30:49 The Reagan Era and Cold War42:40 Globalization49:52 Trade Blocks52:38 Free Trade56:00 Implementing1:03:15 The Gold Standard1:08:50 Bitcoin1:10:13 CDBCs1:11:00 Reserve Currency1:17:00 Global Power1:20:50 Monetary Policy
Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics. Dr. Roberts is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy. He has penned a dozen books, most recently The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State
. You can find his latest articles at his website, Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy.