There's a lot of evidence that finance has a much more complicated relationship to inflation than it had in the past, right? Historically, finance was kind of at the center of sound money politics of anti inflation politics. What's interesting today is for a number of reasons, finance seems to be less sort of monomaniacally hawkish and less anti inflation.
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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