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This Wreckage

Ep 194 - Gilt Trip

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or...

Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666

Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what its like working inside a secure state facility behind unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory of the contemporary spectacle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I've just been kind of getting more detail on precisely what was it that lay behind the bank's intervention

0:05.6

and incredibly unusual intervention for them to go in and start buying up specific government bonds

0:11.8

because they notice dysfunction in the market essentially

0:14.2

out part of the market not working.

0:15.8

Well what are the pragmatic consequences?

0:17.8

What's the pragmatic story that lies beneath that?

0:20.0

Well I'm told that what they were responding to is what internally has been described as a run dynamic.

0:26.3

What does that mean?

0:27.3

It's very similar in kind of wholesale terms to what we saw with Northern Rock when there was that run on that bank back in 2007.

0:36.5

It's a vicious cycle essentially, people trying to withdraw money, which in turn leads leads sometimes inevitably to financial collapse and I'm told

0:46.2

that there were a number a sway of pension funds that were it not for the

0:51.4

government's intervention would have essentially collapsed, been insolvent by this afternoon.

0:57.2

That's how fast moving this crisis in the pensions market was. It's the guilt market that lies underneath the defines benefits pension schemes

1:09.7

Well, you know, they kind of touches on the main episode thing, because I've been, I don't know, maybe in a bit of Malays myself, but I don't know how that's going to go with the fact that this is a bonus though.

1:20.0

No, let's talk about the Malays. Let's talk about the Malays.

1:22.0

Let's talk about the Malays. You want to talk about the Malays. Let's talk about the Malays.

1:23.0

You want to talk about the Malays?

1:24.0

Yeah, so, um,

1:26.0

real Malays hours.

1:27.0

Real Malays hours.

1:28.0

Real Malays hours.

1:29.0

I mean, uh, yeah, I think we're feeling it a lot.

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