A Monetary Club Podcast. With our economic and logistical systems becoming ever more complex, Steve Davies chats to John Petley about the possible repercussions of a major power failure at local and national levels. Steve Davies is a senior educational fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and the author of Apocalypse Next (available via the IEA). His latest book, The Great Realignment, will be published in 2026.

John Petley chats to new Institute Director Ewen Stewart about his role and his views on why the UK economy has reached such a stalemate - and what he believes can be done about it.Recorded in October 2025.

“The central banks, by not embracing the quantity theory of money, have been the biggest distorters of income distribution in the history of man”In this fascinating episode of our Monetary Club podcast series, Professor Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University chats with John Petley to discuss what he thinks is in store for the US economy over the next few months and how it relates to the thinking behind his two latest books: 'Capital, Interest, and Waiting: Controversies, Puzzles, and New Additions to Capital Theory' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) with Leland Yeager; and 'Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of our Financial System' (Wiley, 2025) with Matt Sekerke.

John Petley from the Institute chats to Juan Castaneda (Vinson Centre) about why we need to think carefully about which monetary aggregate we should use in macroeconomic forecasting.

Is a little bit of inflation a good thing or is it only good for spendthrift governments? John Petley from the Institute of International Monetary Research is in conversation with John Greenwood (International Monetary Monitor) to discuss whether there is a case for tightening the UK's inflation target.