Ken Rogoff will surely win the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Did you know it is formally called the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?) Until that time, this justly celebrated economist and sometime chess grandmaster continues to inspire leaders and ruffle feathers on the left and right alike with his exceptional scholarship, his commitment to telling the truth about debt, deficit, and doom, and his understated wry sense of humor. His new book, Our Dollar, Your Problem, is both essential and readable, and it coheres with his epic collaboration with Carmen Reinhardt from two decades ago, This Time is Different. Both should be required reading. On the other hand, as my exceptionally brilliant listenership shall learn, his taste in pizza is incorrect. Join me in my journey into one of the world’s most productive and insightful brains. Kenneth Rogoff, Finally.

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