Podcasts
The Monetary Club
Our monetary system is a complex web that underpins the economy and influences our daily life. Given its importance, could monetary policy be improved? From inflation to cryptocurrency, this informative series explores key topics in macroeconomics and the financial system to offer some answers to this critical question. In each podcast, the host will interview an expert in their subject to learn more about the priorities and the problems - and even some possible solutions.
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Podcasts 2025
If the lights go out: The economic implications of power failure. With Steve Davies
A Monetary Club Podcast. With our economic and logistical systems becoming ever more complex, Steve Davies chats to John Petley about the possible repercussions of a major power failure at local and national levels.
Should the state or the private sector drive the economy? With Ewen Stewart
A Monetary Club podcast. John Petley chats to new Institute Director Ewen Stewart about his role and his views on why the UK economy has reached such a stalemate - and what he believes can be done about it.
Recession or recovery - what's next for the US economy? With Steve Hanke
“The central banks, by not embracing the quantity theory of money, have been the biggest distorters of income distribution in the history of man” In this fascinating episode of our Monetary Club podcast series, Professor Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University chats with John Petley to discuss what he thinks is in store for the US economy over the next few months and how it relates to the thinking behind his two latest books: 'Capital, Interest, and Waiting: Controversies, Puzzles, and New Additions to Capital Theory' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) with Leland Yeager; and 'Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of our Financial System' (Wiley, 2025) with Matt Sekerke.
The difference between 'narrow money' and 'broad money' - and why it matters. With Juan Castañeda
John Petley from the Institute chats to Juan Castaneda (Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham) about why we need to think carefully about which monetary aggregate we should use in macroeconomic forecasting.
Is there a case for tightening the UK's inflation target? With John Greenwood
Is a little bit of inflation a good thing or is it only good for spendthrift governments? John Petley from the Institute is in conversation with John Greenwood (International Monetary Monitor) to discuss whether there is a case for tightening the UK's inflation target.
Podcasts 2024
Podcasts from the Institute, as well as episodes from other organisations featuring members of the IIMR.
Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Professor Tim Congdon
Jan: Our Chairman is the subject of the Hale Report, Episode 50. The topics discussed in this wide-ranging interview include monetary policy, debt, the US dollar as a reserve currency, various wars and China.
Podcasts 2023
Vinson Centre Podcast Series in the Classical Political Economy Tradition
Dec: Juan Castaneda interviews Tim Congdon about Monetarism.
Chris Marsh and Damian Pudner: The European Central Bank
Oct: Chris Marsh discusses the 2% inflation target.
Julian Jessop and Damian Pudner: Should the Bank of England embrace monetarism?
Sept 22nd: Julian Jessop considers the Bank of England's options with regard to monetary policy.
Frances Coppola and Damian Pudner: From bank reserves to interest rates
Sept 18th: Frances Coppola discusses the dangers of fiscal dominance, which doesn’t only occur with big-spending governments.
Frances Coppola and Damian Pudner: Who benefits from QE?
Frances Coppola on Quantitative Easing and Tightening, from there moving on to the UK mortgage market and interest rates.
Tim Congdon and Paul Amery: Why monetarism is common sense
Sept 4th: Tim Congdon in discussion with Paul Amery for the New Money Review podcast 'Why monetarism is common sense'