In this series distributed by the New Books Network in 2024-25, Tim Gwynn Jones interviewed eight writers about their biographies of chairs of the US Federal Reserve, featuring …
Mark Nelson on Marriner Eccles
Bob Bremner on Bill Martin
Wyatt Wells on Arthur Burns
Bill Silber on Paul Volcker
Sebastian Mallaby on Alan Greenspan
David Wessel on Ben Bernanke
Jon Hilsenrath on Janet Yellen
Nick Timiraos on Jerome Powell
2026 special: Claire Jones, Michael Redmond, Catarina Saraiva on Kevin Warsh
In 2022-24, Tim Gwynn Jones interviewed officials who shaped the EU.
“Market pressure was growing by the day” — Charles Dallara, 19 March 2024.
“We couldn’t accept that Spain could do better than Italy” — Vincenzo Visco, 18 June 2023.
“He was definitely not amused” — Lex Hoogduin, 5 May 2023.
“Now maybe we’re a bit spoiled” — Klaus Regling, 4 March 2023.
“We backed down and we started again” — Andrew McDowell, 17 February 2023.
“Trust was thin on the ground” — Georges Heinrich, 6 January 2023.
“Look into my eyes: you’re gonna go bankrupt” — Thomas Wieser, 9 December 2022.
“Reality took its revenge” — Ramon Fernandez, 12 November 2022.
“Putin didn’t know that he actually united Europe” — Erkki Liikanen, 22 October 2022.
From 2020-25, Tim Gwynn Jones did 95 interviews for the New Books Network on European affairs and economics. Highlights included conversations with:
Anne Applebaum on “Autocracy Inc”. (June 2024).
Yaroslav Trofimov, Simon Shuster (January 2024), Illia Ponomarenko, Jen Stout (May 2024) and Tom Mutch (May 2025) on reporting from the Ukraine war.
John Cochrane, Luis Garicano, and Klaus Masuch on how to end the euro’s “crisis cycle” (June 2025).
Matt Sleat and Paul Kelly on “post-liberalism” (December 2025).
Lorenzo Castellani on “Mussolini’s Technocrat” (October 2025).
Vuk Vuksanović on Serbia’s balancing act between Russia and the West (March 2025).
Isaac Stanley-Becker on the history of the Schengen Area and Gabriel Gavin on reporting from the Nagorno-Karabakh wars (January 2025).
Marko Attila Hoare on the surreal history of Serbia (February 2024).
Mark Gilbert on the neglected history of postwar Italian democracy (June 2024).
Benjamin Schupmann on when democracies are allowed to turn “militant” in their own defence and Dmitry Grozoubinski on “Why Politicians Lie About Trade” (May 2024).
Michael Kimmage on the origins of Russia-Ukraine war and “the new global instability” (February 2024).
Peter Foster on the predictable failure of Brexit (September 2023).
A reading list recommended by each interviewee can be found here.
From 2024 until mid-2026, Tim Jones and Pepijn Bergsen participated in Medley Advisors’ podcasts on markets and policymaking.
