Ep. 317: George Selgin on Trump Tariffs, Fed Independence and Dollar Vulnerability

George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. He is the author of numerous books. His latest is ‘False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947’. In this podcast we discuss: 

• Re-interpreting the New Deal 
• Parallels between Roosevelt (FDR) and Trump 
• Problem with rapid policy changes  
• Critique of current Trump administration policies 
• Why tariffs do not work 
• How transitory tariff inflation could turn persistent 
• Central bank independence and inflation 
• Dollar’s global position 
• Biggest risks for the US 

You can follow George on X, at Cato and can view his latest book here. 

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