Kai Risdahl
speaker
13,045 appearances
82 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4d ago
Kai Risdahl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's Congress and the president.
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economy.
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You might have seen some headlines about our debt burden forty trillion dollars.
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Inflation, as of the latest PCE reading, three point seven percent, way, way higher than the two percent the Fed wants it to be.
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And when you are in debt, the way the federal government is, inflation actually reduces the real value of the money that you owe.
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You all know I'm a history guy, right?
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So as an explanation of fiscal dominance,
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The government sold something near $185 billion worth of war bonds all in all.
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That's in 1940s dollars.
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The national debt jumped from forty-nine billion dollars in nineteen forty-one to almost two hundred and sixty billion by the end of nineteen forty-five.
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So through the war and for a while afterward, the Fed kept interest rates low even as inflation started to rise.
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There you have it.
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Monetary policy dictated by the government's borrowing needs.
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You tend to see it in governments of like developing countries.
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Zimbabwe and Venezuela are some recent examples.
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Government debt got so high there that the central banks essentially printed money to help the government cover its debts.
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That led to hyperinflation, which is a very bad
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Fan.
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rates and the debt
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pay?
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