Letters, we get letters, we get stacks and stacks of letters.

Letters, we get letters, we get letters, we get stacks and stacks of letters.

It's Thursday, March 23, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social,

economic, political, and geopolitical concerns. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy

Fellow. I'll be your moderator today. I'm glad to report that I'm joined as usual by the three

stars of our show, our Goodfellows. That would include the historian Neil Ferguson, the geostrategist, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster and the economist John

Cochran. If you notice, I did this out of order because we want to focus on John Cochran for a minute.

Something very special happened today at the Oover Institution. Our friend John Cochran was named a winner of the

2003 Bradley Prize in honor of and I quote, those who quote, restore, strengthen and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.

Pest honors, including his fellow Hoover economist John Taylor, Goodfellow's fan favorite Victor Davis Hanson and a promising young academic name Ion Hersey Alley.

John, congratulations. What esteemed company to be in.

It certainly has esteemed company. I feel. It certainly is a steam company.

I feel unworthy, but it certainly, it's lovely to know.

Someone out there is listening to my little scribblings,

and it inspires me to do even better and to slowly become worthy of this over time.

Neil, H.R. anything you want to add? Hey, congratulations, John.

I mean, super well deserved.

And, you know, I mean, your scholarship is impeccable, but it's also accessible.

Even washed up generals can begin to learn something about economics, man.

So, so congratulations.

Really, I mean, it's great for you and obviously for the Hoover Institution.

And John, I hope it's just the first of many prizes that you'll win for the fiscal theory of the price level, which is a seminal book.

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