Alexander Salter, and he is a fellow, and comparative economic research fellow at the Texas Tech

Free Market Institute.

And he is also associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise.

He is an associate professor of economics there at Texas Tech.

And he has written several books in the past.

And he's got two books that are coming out this year.

The books are about economics and about liberty.

And that's very important.

And so I wanted to talk to him about those books as well as kind of current events.

So joining us now is Alexander Salter.

Thank you for joining us, Mr. Salter.

Great to be back.

Thanks for having me.

Well, thank you.

It's always great to talk to you.

And we've got a decision that is going to be announced tomorrow about interest rates.

I like this headline from Zero Hedge, Powell's Volker moment.

Whatever the Fed does on Wednesday will be a mistake because we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place between trying to tame inflation and a recession.

So how do you see this? What do you think is,

where are we right now in this? It is a bit of a tough scenario. On the one hand, I'm actually

most mad at the banks themselves. I understand the regulatory policies. I understand too big to

fail on the perverse logic that that sometimes gives people who are actually running banks and

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