How will DOGE ‘disrupt’ the government? | John Cochrane

Stanford economist John Cochrane discusses DOGE, tariffs, and what it will take to avoid a debt crisis.

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Will Trump and Elon Musk actually cut the government down to size and pull us back from the fiscal cliff? Just asking questions.

John Cochrane is joining Just Asking Questions today to talk about what it would actually take to get government spending under control permanently and discuss a few of the staggering number of government reforms either underway or being floated. He's an economist at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics and finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He publishes his thoughts at The Grumpy Economist.

Chapters:
00:00 Coming up...
00:30 DOGE is buying out bureaucrats
5:37 government spending disrespects taxpayers
7:23 Donald Trump is winning the culture war
11:09 Hypocritical support for DOGE?
15:08 Should we give up on congress?
19:40 Reacting to Elon Musk's opinion of regulations
36:55 Trump thinks outside of the box
39:04 the emperor has no clothes
41:03 The election was cultural, and not about the economy
43:52 the government needs to get out of the way
45:55 Some pessimism about DOGE
53:34 Trump wants to end the income tax?
57:58 Can tax reform be made a populist issue?
1:02:24 How bad are tariffs in reality?
1:09:02 How can we keep growth going?