Kaleb Nygaard

I'm Podcasting

I research, write, host, and produce The Bankster Podcast and The Reserve Podcast

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During my senior year of college, during the late night homework sessions and the long afternoons spent in the math tutoring center, I told myself again and again that when I finally landed my first 9-5 I’d spend my extra time studying what I want. I was one of the lucky few to have found a course of study (economics and statistics) that truly interested me - but after a certain amount of homework assignments and group projects one tires of school - no matter how much the topic inspires you. The day did arrive. I graduated. Moved to a tiny studio apartment in downtown Chicago. And worked 9-5. After six months in my new life what did I look back and realize? I hadn’t cracked a single central banking book. I hadn’t done a lick of personal research or investigations into the topics I had long promised myself I would.

Left to my personal waverings I would have continued down that boring path, so I decided I needed something to motivate and drive me to spend time on what I really knew I liked to do. From their very beginning I had always been a lover of podcast. I listened to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and This American Life on the weekend radio with my family. When I got my first iPod the first downloads were not music but podcasts. Since the early days I had expanded my podcast listening to nearly 20 hours a week or more. But to my dismay there wasn’t a solid central banking podcast - there wasn’t a central banking podcast period.

That would be my drive. I would do a central banking podcast. The Bankster Podcast ran every other week for a little over two years - 52 episodes. I then took a little break and worked on a higher production quality third season that was released summer 2020 - A History of the Lender of Last Resort in seven parts.

The fourth season of The Bankster Podcast was an unabridged reading of the central banker’s bible - Walter Bagehot’s 1873 “Lombard Street.”

In August 2021 I started a current events, unscripted, conversational style podcast called “The Reserve”. Again, created it because I wanted to listen to it.

 

My favorite timeless episodes

I listen to tons of politics/economic podcasts that I love but aren’t very relevant long term