What accounts for Biden's economic and domestic policy team looking so different from Obama's or the emergence of Ezra Klein's supply side progressivism. Something very different from the center of democratic wonky a decade ago. What then are the hard limits that remain even amid these shifts. What what remains beyond the pale? I think it's significant that the 2016 election was preceded not by an outright recession but by a real noticeable slowdown in the economy caused by the Fed raising interest rates.
Featuring historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation.
Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation thedigradio.com/podcast/inflation-politics-with-tim-barker
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