George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the economy, Social Security, debt, taxes, politics, economic growth, and the rise of Asia with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s GPS. The Shultz interview begins approximately four minutes into the show.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Don Boudreaux of George Mason University, the Chinese exchange-rate policy and the claim that China keeps the value of its currency artificially low in order to boost exports to the United States and reduce U.S. exports.

John Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford. An elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, he is an expert on monetary, fiscal, and international economic policy. From 2001 to 2005, he served as U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs. He presented a talk titled “An Economic Program for the Future” at the Hoover retreat held October 17-19, 2010. (34:12)