Michael R. Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. Before joining AEI, Dr. Strain worked in the Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau and in the macroeconomics research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.

Dr. Strain is joined by Jake Kirshen of the University of North Carolina to discuss inflation, the national debt, and an economic policy perspective on our upcoming election.

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Steven B. Kamin is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies international macroeconomic and financial issues. Before joining AEI, Dr. Kamin spent 32 years at the Federal Reserve, directing the Division of International Finance, advising on international economic and financial policy matters, and representing the Fed before international groups such as the G7. He also served as a visiting economist at the Bank for International Settlements, a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and a consultant for the World Bank.

Dr. Kamin is joined by Brady Nichols of the University of Michigan to discuss dollarization and Argentina’s economic policy.

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Alex Brill is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the impact of tax policy on the US economy as well as the fiscal, economic, and political consequences of tax, budget, health care, retirement security, and trade policies. He also works on health care reform, pharmaceutical spending and drug innovation, and unemployment insurance reform. Brill is the editor of Carbon Tax Policy: A Conservative Dialogue on Pro-Growth Opportunities.

He has testified numerous times before Congress on tax policy, labor markets and unemployment insurance, Social Security reform, fiscal stimulus, the manufacturing sector, and biologic drug competition.

Mr. Brill is joined by Ryan Lawroski of the University of Michigan to discuss the single-payer health care system and drug costs.

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