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laying bare the hidden risks embedded within our financial system, and how Central Banks worldwide are

scrambling to paper over these chasms of danger.

Mark Leith is a distinguished political economist and an authority on Central Banks, and

Adam Toe's is one of the world's preeminent financial

historians.

To them, it seems that the Fed's traditional dual mandate of keeping prices stable and keeping

unemployment low,

has been replaced with the sole focus

of propping up asset prices at any cost,

even if that means bailing out leverage entities

that took on too much risk.

They also discuss Europe and how this crisis is heightening the contradictions within the Eurozone

and pushing the European banking system to the brink.

It's a wide-ranging conversation. They discuss China, the US dollar,

Central Bank swap lines, capital flight.

But the main theme of the conversation is fragility.

Just how fragile our financial system is and how it relies on ever

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