Historian Neil Ferguson explains we may be entering the 1970s again, so we examine the evidence.

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and Chile averts disaster. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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Are we on the precipice of the 1910s, the 1930s, the 1970s?

Kind of unclear what the historical precedent is.

Well, historian and Neil Ferguson did a fascinating interview over the last couple of days that is well worth watching.

It's an interview that he did

talking about the situation of the globe. Ferguson has written a number of really important books.

He wrote a great book about the history of finance called The Age of Money. He has a great

two-part history of the Rothschild family. He wrote books on the First World War and the Second

World War. He's one of my favorite historians. And in this interview, he explained where he thinks we are in history.

And he says that he thinks that the globe is on the version of the 1970s, that we're all sort of

happy talking past the reality of the situation. Here he was.

The ingredients of the 1970s are already in place. The monetary and fiscal policy mistakes of last year, which set this inflation off,

are very like the mistakes of the late 60s.

And then as in 1973, you get a war, except that this war is lasting much longer than the

1973 war, and so the energy shock that it's causing

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