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Inflation Politics with Tim Barker

Jul 28, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
The Problem of Inflation Is More Complex Than Wages
03:31 • 3min
3
What Is Inflation and Why Does It Happen?
06:56 • 4min
4
What Is a Central Bank?
11:09 • 3min
5
The Wage Share of the National Income
13:48 • 5min
6
What Has Changed for the Fed and What Hasn't Changed?
18:40 • 6min
7
Is the Federal Reserve Really Pushing Up Wages?
24:29 • 2min
8
The History of the Volker Shock
26:53 • 5min
9
The Vulgar Shock
31:43 • 5min
10
Volkar's Obsession With the Labor Unions
36:51 • 2min
11
What Are the Causes of Inflation?
38:24 • 2min
12
Volgar Was Genuinely Independent From Narrowly Defined Special Interests.
40:08 • 4min
13
What Are the Alternatives to Austerity?
44:13 • 3min
14
The Beginning of Secular Wage Stagnation
46:54 • 2min
15
Economic Dominance in the Seventies
49:20 • 2min
16
Why Was Finance So Much Unlike to Day?
50:53 • 2min
17
The Dollar Is a Stable Source of Value
53:22 • 2min
18
What's the Consequences of the Volkershok?
55:06 • 2min
19
Is the Federal Reserve Really Willing to Tighten Money?
57:18 • 2min
20
A Little Bit of Inflation Means That You Want to Make It by Stuff
59:23 • 3min
21
The Volkar Shock
01:02:06 • 2min
22
Why Did Home Owners Join the Reaction Against Inflation?
01:04:04 • 4min
23
The Third World Development Model
01:07:37 • 2min
24
The Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act
01:09:20 • 2min
25
Is the Anti Inflation Coalition the Material Basis for the New Right?
01:11:48 • 2min
26
Jimmy Carter's Idiotism
01:13:37 • 2min
27
Is He a Racial Moderate?
01:15:36 • 2min
28
The Story of New Liberalism - What Goes Wrong?
01:17:36 • 3min
29
Verso Book Club - A New Subscription Service for Verso Readers
01:20:13 • 4min
30
Monitorism and Freedman
01:23:59 • 5min
31
The Natural Rate of Unemployment Is a Freedmanite Innovation
01:29:14 • 4min
32
Why Lower Unemployment Will Lead to a Rise in Prices?
01:32:49 • 4min
33
Is the Workers' Bargaining Power a Problem for the System?
01:36:26 • 5min
34
The Black Box of the Corporation, You Know?
01:41:54 • 2min
35
Greenspan and the Federal Reserve - Is There a Federal Reserve?
01:43:28 • 5min
36
Is It Important for the Left to Repolize Money?
01:48:15 • 4min
37
The Left and Labor Support Expansionary Monetary Policy
01:52:11 • 3min
38
Is There a Hard Money Constituency?
01:55:35 • 2min
39
Is This a Sign of a Back Less Constituency in the Republican Party?
01:57:23 • 2min
40
The Left's Disorientation in the New World
01:58:59 • 6min
41
The Dig From Jacobin Magazine
02:04:41 • 2min