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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Strain’s New Respect

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Michael Strain, Remnant regular and beloved economic policy wonk at AEI, returns to the program to explore the state of inflation and kvetch about the Federal Reserve. He and Jonah also provide some unwashed commentary on House of the Dragon, discuss whether economics really is a dismal science, and mix in some thoughts on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Can inflation be fought at the state level? When should economics and politics mix? And is it possible for a Remnant episode to be too long and nerdy?

Transcript

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Music

0:06.0

Whoa!

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Oh, my goodness.

0:12.0

Oh, my goodness.

0:14.0

Hello ladies and gentlemen.

0:16.0

Can I please have your attention?

0:18.0

Hello, Jiggy.

0:22.0

Cheers.

0:28.0

Greetings, you're listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:34.0

I am back from our retreat in an undisclosed location.

0:38.0

It was gangbusters and fun and great.

0:42.0

And I don't think I have the same sort of late night revelers voice that I had on Saturday morning.

0:50.0

And since I need to sort of dive back into wonkery since there was very little wonkery at the Dispatch retreat, I decided to have my friend and colleague from AEI.

1:04.0

He's the head of the econ department at AEI.

1:08.0

He's what Edmund Berkwood called a softester and a calculator.

1:12.0

And he reduces all of the lovinness and humanity of life into a strict profit-loss calculation.

1:26.0

And he's exactly what Russ Roberts is trying to get away from in his trying to look at the more transcendent things in life.

1:36.0

And I'm being grotesquely unfair, but I like to bait him.

1:44.0

And he is, of course, a freaking guest on the podcast and he's going to do most of the talking today.

1:50.0

Michael, strain. Welcome back to the Remnant.

1:52.0

Thank you so much for having me. It's wonderful to be back.

1:56.0

Man does live by bread alone. That should be our theme.

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