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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
Description: Today David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in particular – have played in the story of globalisation. How has the Fed tried to reconcile its obligations to American democracy with its obligations to the global order? Is the Eurodollar a token of American strength or American vulnerability? Are the world’s central bankers really just a private club? And what does history tell us about the likely outcome of Trump vs Powell?
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