Bloomberg On the Economy

May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bryan Caplan, an associate professor at George Mason University, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Fairfax, Virginia, about proposals by Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain to suspend the federal tax on gasoline, the outlook for the presidential election and impact of the dollar's decline on oil prices.

May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Derek Mitchell, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic International Studies, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Washington about Myanmar's military junta, the cyclone that may have killed 100,000 people in the country and U.S. policy toward Myanmar.

May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at Merk Investments LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Palo Alto, California, about the rise in oil and commodity prices, its impact on U.S. consumers and the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy.

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Marshall Goldman, a professor at Harvard University, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the outlook for Russia's government under new President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's oil industry and Goldman's book "Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia."

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors LP, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from New York about the outlook for the U.S. economy, President George W. Bush's tax cuts and Federal Reserve monetary policy.

May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Win Thin, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about Federal Reserve monetary policy, the outlook for the dollar, and U.S. and Asian economies.

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Clifford Winston, an airline economist at the Brookings Institution, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Washington about the U.S. aviation industry, the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of facilities and the need for privatization of airport operations.

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ellen Zentner, an economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the outlook for the U.S. economy, the potential impact of tax rebates on growth and Federal Reserve monetary policy.

May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about April's unemployment rate. The jobless rate fell to 5 percent from 5.1 percent in March.

May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Jim McCormick, head of global currency strategy at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Washington about the U.S. dollar's performance, outlook for the currency and the possibility that Gulf states may drop their peg to the dollar.