September 2, 2016· 32 min

44: What a 12-Year Knows About Money That an Economist Doesn't

Orality
Model
82%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,356 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(508 words)
M:28%
GuestEric Lonergan(3,712 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic63%
obviously, completely, huge
Engagement69%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, right
Repetition100%
think (70x), what (61x), money (57x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway, executi..., So, Tracy, do you know what mo..., But but in all seriousness, yo...
Sound Patterns53%
32 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases7%
you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging12%
could, might, maybe
Passive Voice8%
be backed, is even, is involved
Abstract Nouns30%
investment, information, volatility
Subordination10%
though, because, until
Sentence Length47%
Avg: 16.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style31%
413 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
monthly, carefully, actually

Description

"What is money?" This seemingly simple question has the ability to drive people crazy. Is it a unit of account? Is it something about exchange? Does it have to be blessed by the government or backed by something hard? On this week's podcast, we speak with fund manager Eric Lonergan, the author of "Money (The Art of Living)," to answer this question as well as the other vexing ones that spring from it. Ultimately we get an answer that's as simple as the question itself, one that would make more sense to a typical 12-year-old than an economist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.