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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 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,

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