Recorded on April 26, 2022 A return to economics this week, coinciding with news of America’s worst inflation in over 40 years. Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president emeritus, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster and John Cochrane to discuss Federal Reserve policy, government spending and the war in Europe as contributors to America’s economic woes, soaring national debt, a possible supply-chain crisis, economic competition with China, plus academic freedom under fire in elite universities. For more information on the Hoover publications mentioned in this video, please visit the links below: Strategika: https://www.hoover.org/strategika China’s Global Sharp Power Weekly Alert: https://hoover.org/CGSPWeeklyAlert ABOUT THE SERIES GoodFellows, a weekly Hoover Institution broadcast, features senior fellows John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, and H.R. McMaster discussing the social, economic, and geostrategic ramifications of this changed world. They can’t banter over lunch these days, but they continue their spirited conversation online about what comes next, as we look forward to an end to the crisis. For more on this series visit, https://www.hoover.org/goodfellows.