The Dig: Inflation Politics with Tim Barker

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Introduction

00:00 • 6min

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The Dig Radio Podcast

05:54 • 1min

3

What Is Inflation and Why Does It Happen?

07:22 • 4min

4

What Is a Central Bank?

11:09 • 3min

5

The Wage Share of the National Income in a Capitalist Economy?

13:48 • 5min

6

What Do You Think About Inflation?

18:40 • 6min

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The Fed's New Way of Thinking About Inflation

24:32 • 2min

8

The History of Inflation

26:53 • 5min

9

The Volcker Coup - Is 1979 More of a Quantitative Leap Than a Qualitative One?

31:43 • 5min

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Volcker's Obsession With Labor Unions

36:52 • 2min

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What Are the Causes of 1970s Inflation?

38:25 • 2min

12

Volcker - Is He a Villainous Figure?

40:08 • 4min

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Is Hegemony at Work in the Wage Price Spirale?

44:13 • 3min

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Is There Something About the Beginning of Secular Economic Stagnation?

46:54 • 2min

15

The From Open Flocke

49:21 • 2min

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Why Was Finance the Lead Constituency for Tight Money?

50:54 • 2min

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Inflation at Home Will Undermine the Value of the Dollar

53:22 • 2min

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The Volcker Shock and the Global South

55:06 • 2min

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The Leverage to Impose Neoliberalism Without Even the Need of a Military Coup

57:18 • 2min

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The Volker Shock and the Recession

59:23 • 3min

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The Globalization of US Corporations in the 1970s and 1980s

01:02:06 • 2min

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Why Did Homeowners Join the Reaction Against Inflation?

01:04:04 • 3min

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The Volcker Shock and the Third World Debt Crisis

01:07:32 • 4min

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Is the Anti-Inflation Coalition the Material Basis for the New Right?

01:11:49 • 2min

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What's the Fuck in Jimmy Carter?

01:13:37 • 4min

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Krugman's New York Times Column on Labor Unions

01:17:37 • 3min

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The Dig Podcast - Verso Book Club

01:20:14 • 4min

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Monetarism and the Volcker Stolen Policy

01:24:00 • 5min

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The Natural Rate of Unemployment

01:29:14 • 4min

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What Is Friedman's Natural Rate of Unemployment?

01:32:49 • 4min

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Is the Workers' Bargaining Power a Problem for the System?

01:36:26 • 5min

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Is There a Better Alternative to Collective Bargaining?

01:41:54 • 2min

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Greenspan Is a Supporter of the Gold Standard

01:43:27 • 5min

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What Is the Importance of Repoliticizing Money?

01:48:15 • 4min

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The Left in Labor Are Supporting Expansionary Monetary Policy

01:52:11 • 3min

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Is There a Hard Money Constituency?

01:55:35 • 2min

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Is This a Backlash Constituency in the Republican Party?

01:57:23 • 2min

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Is This Also the Political Economic Context of GameStop and Wall Street Bets?

01:59:08 • 2min

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What Can We Learn From the History of Military Keynesianism?

02:00:42 • 6min