The Dig

Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber

Apr 8, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
Price Wars, How the Commodities Markets Made Are Chaot World
02:35 • 4min
3
Rupert Russell and Isabella Waber, Welcome to the Dig
06:08 • 2min
4
What Are Speculators?
08:03 • 4min
5
Commodity Market Volatility
12:11 • 5min
6
The Rational Market Hypothesis of Prices
17:22 • 4min
7
The Importance of Prices as Information Gathering Devices
21:37 • 2min
8
The Bread Based Social Contract
24:02 • 4min
9
What's the Avalanche Effect?
27:35 • 3min
10
The Price of Food Can Predict Riscoby Throughout History
30:42 • 5min
11
Is the Arab Spring a Morality?
35:16 • 4min
12
The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of Two Thousand
39:34 • 4min
13
The New Narrative of Financial Bubbles
44:03 • 5min
14
The Global Wheat, Wheat Shortage
49:06 • 3min
15
The Cascading Effects of the Oil Market
51:52 • 4min
16
Commodity Lavel Export Patterns in the Second Globalization
56:21 • 5min
17
Doom Scrawling on Twitter, You Know?
01:01:03 • 5min
18
Oil Prices Rise, Is This Driven by Speculation?
01:06:11 • 3min
19
What Does Chaos Mean to Someone's Life?
01:09:21 • 4min
20
What's Happening in Guatemala?
01:12:59 • 2min
21
What Is the Root Cause of the Guatemala Crisis?
01:15:17 • 2min
22
Climate Change Economic Impact
01:16:51 • 4min
23
Is There a Global Shortage of Wheat in the World?
01:21:06 • 2min
24
Climate Change
01:23:26 • 3min
25
The Neoliberal Response to Inflation
01:26:18 • 6min
26
Debunking the Deficit Myth
01:32:08 • 5min
27
Post Austerity Kind of World - I'm Not Saying That Austerity Is Going to Happen
01:36:49 • 2min
28
The Fed's Response to the Two Thousand Eight Financial Crisis Was Paradise Shattering
01:38:32 • 2min
29
I Think We're in an Uncharted Territory
01:40:28 • 4min
30
Is Supply Chain Disruption Driving Up Prices?
01:44:51 • 3min
31
Supply Chains Are Broken, and You Know That Your Supply Chain Is Broken
01:47:46 • 3min
32
Are We Going to Have a Profit Squeeze?
01:50:56 • 3min
33
Is There a Cap on Gas Prices?
01:54:06 • 5min
34
Price Controls and Rationing
01:59:28 • 5min
35
The Emerging Food Crisis - What Kind of Crisis Could It Lead To?
02:04:01 • 4min
36
Global Food Markets
02:07:36 • 3min
37
The Impact of Interest Rates on Unindebted Countries
02:10:43 • 2min
38
The Dig From Jacobin Magazine
02:12:25 • 2min