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Monetary Politics w/ Tim Barker

Dec 22, 2022

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The Politics of Price Control

02:43

Capital Discipline in the Energy Sector

02:30

How Does the Fed Affect the World Economy?

04:13

Introduction

6min

What Is Inflation?

4min

What Causes Inflation?

3min

Kolesky's Analysis of Inflation

2min

Do You Think the Fed Is Running in Reverse?

3min

What's Going on With Wages?

4min

Is There a Wage Price Spirale in the Service Sector?

2min

Is There a Role for Automation and New Investment in the Service Sector?

2min

Are the Class Coalitions Around Monetary Policy Changed?

3min

10.

Is There a Relationship Between Finance and Inflation?

6min

11.

How Does the Fed Affect the World Economy?

4min

12.

The Impotence of the Fed

1min

13.

The Fed's Unique Power Is a Result of a Debt Ceiling Standoff

2min

14.

Is There a Causal Analysis of Inflation?

4min

15.

Is the Fed Predisposed to a Monetarist

2min

16.

Is It Just Too Much Money That Causes Inflation?

3min

17.

Is There an Argument for a Left-Wing Anti-Inflation Strategy?

6min

18.

Is Defense Spending Driving Inflation?

2min

19.

Light in Gaza by Ali Abunima

5min

20.

The Politics of Price Control

3min

21.

Supply Chain Disruption in the Economy

3min

22.

What's the Story of the Shareholder Revolution?

3min

23.

Capital Discipline in the Energy Sector

2min

24.

What Does the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Mean?

5min

25.

Biden's Economic and Domestic Policy Team Looking So Different From Obama's

5min

26.

The Supply Side Approaches to the Meat Packing Plants

2min

27.

Do You Like Inflation?

2min

28.

The Center Left Center of Gravity in American Economic History

3min

29.

The Dig Podcast Part 2

2min

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