I recently appeared on The Epoch Times’ “The Report” podcast to talk about an article I recently co-authored with Emel Akan, titled “How Flawed Jobs Data Influences Fed Rate Policy.”

You can listen here:

The legendary economist Walter Block recently posted a list of the top ten books that influenced his seminal career on his Substack page.

Others have been encouraged to do the same.

Here are the books that have influenced my career over the years (in no particular order);

1. Free to Choose | Milton Friedman

2. Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt

3. The Thomas Sowell Reader | Thomas Sowell

4. Liberty Defined | Ron Paul

5. The Great Deformation | David Stockman

6. What Has Government Done to Our Money? | Murray Rothbard

7. America’s Great Depression | Murray Rothbard

8. The Revolution: A Manifesto | Ron Paul

9. Defending the Undefendable | Walter Block

10. Freakonomics | Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (they made economics fun!)

Mr. Block also referenced his favorite classical composers, so I must do the same (in no particular order)

J.S. Bach

Franz Schubert

Max Richter

Frederic Chopin

John Fields

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sergei Rachmaninoff

I recently appeared on The Epoch Times’ podcast Constitution Avenue with Jacob Burg.

Our half-hour discussion touched upon trade, tariffs, and inflation.

Give it a listen here.

Writing about economics, it is not surprising that tariffs will be one of the top issues atop your daily to-do list.

In President Donald Trump’s first month, I have already done a ton of reporting on tariffs.

Here is one article for Liberty Nation News and another for The Epoch Times.

You can also check out my interviews with LN Radio host Mark Angelides below:

I had the pleasure of speaking with former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for the second time over at The Epoch Times.

We talked about a broad array of issues, with, of course, a focus on tariffs.

You can read the full story here.