Banter: An AEI Podcast

Banter: An AEI Podcast


Latest Episodes

Edward Pinto on the US Housing Market
June 28, 2022

Edward Pinto is a senior fellow and the director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute. He is currently researching how to increase the entry-level housing supply for first-time buyers and renters who earn hourly wages,

Ben Ippolito on Health Care Economics in America
June 14, 2022

Benedic Ippolito is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where his research focuses on public finance and health economics. He studies health care financing, the pharmaceutical market and its regulations, a

John Yoo on SCOTUS, Justice Thomas, and Old Parkland
May 31, 2022

John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI. He has worked in all three branches of government, notably as an official in the US Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism after the September 11 attacks. He also ser

Ian Rowe on Black Conservatism
May 19, 2022

Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. In his new book Agency (Templeton Press, May 2022), Ian Rowe seeks to inspire young people of

Matt Continetti on the Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
May 03, 2022

Matt Continetti is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where his work is focused on American political thought and history, specifically focusing on the development of the Republican party and the American conservative movement in the 20

Jason Blessing on Cybersecurity
April 19, 2022

Jason Blessing is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on cybersecurity, military cyber forces, military technological transformation and force structure, US cyber defense policy including civ

James Coleman on energy insecurity
April 05, 2022

James W. Coleman is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on energy policy, including energy commodity, transport, and trade and markets regulation. He is concurrently the Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty

Chris Miller on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and what happens next
March 17, 2022

Chris Miller is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Russian foreign policy, politics, and economics; Russia and Ukraine; Russian-European relations; and Eurasia. He also focuses on semiconductors a

Brad Wilcox on marriage in today's America
March 01, 2022

Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the AEI, where his research explores the links between family and the economy at home and abroad. Brad joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss the state of the American family, marriage and birth rates, and how bo

Desmond Lachman on how the Fed should respond to soaring inflation
February 15, 2022

Desmond Lachman is a Senior Fellow at AEI. He joined AEI after serving as a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. He previously served as deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Policy