Jon Hartley

Jon Hartley, a macroeconomist with the Mercatus Center and host of *Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century*, discusses key insights from a recent Hoover Institution conference. He explores the Shadow Open Market Committee's role in shaping monetary policy, the tension between fiscal theories and Fed strategies, and the implications of government debt management. Hartley also dives into how changing fiscal-monetary dynamics affect economic stability and the relevance of historical policy decisions during inflationary periods.