Dr. Tyler Goodspeed chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 202-21. During his tenure on the council, he also chaired the Economic Policy Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

From 2021 through 2023, Tyler was a Director and Chief Economist at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm. The author of four books on economic history, Tyler holds a PhD in economics from Cambridge University and a PhD in history from Harvard University,

He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London and a member of the Geoeconomic Council of Advisers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

All views are his own and not any of the organisations he is affiliated with.

In this podcast, we discuss:

The "Boom-Bust" Myth
Recessions as "Apophonies"
Expansions Do Not Die of Old Age
Policy Hubris
The 1785 Structural Break
Supply Shocks as Choke Points
Misnaming the 2001 Recession
The 2008 Energy and Mortgage Intersection
Impairment of Creative Destruction
Fidelity to Long-Run Trends

Ep. 351: Tyler Goodspeed on Recession Myths, the Reality of Economic Shocks, and Policy Hubris

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Ep. 351: Tyler Goodspeed on Recession Myths, the Reality of Economic Shocks, and Policy Hubris