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VersoBooks.com Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This episode is the final of my two-part

interview with historian Tim Barker on Monetary Politics. We pick up where we left off last week

and discuss quite a lot. The debate over whether loose and unconventional monetary policy caused

inflation in the price of assets, like stocks and housing, what sort of light the current

economic situation sheds on Marxist accounts of a so-called long and downturn in capitalism,

and how the Fed's interest rate hikes are pushing poor indebted countries into debt crisis,

and many, many other topics too. I recommend that you listen to part one of this interview if you

have not done so already, and that you also listen to my July 2021 interview with Tim if you want

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