April 1, 2019· 35 min

From MMT Advocate To Outspoken Critic

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

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(831 words)
M:28%
GuestCullen Roche(3,282 words)
M:26%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic45%
very, totally, basically
Engagement61%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
they (69x), people (58x), think (54x)
Parallelism100%
So have you heard the story ab..., And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And it's, kinda complicated an...
Sound Patterns37%
23 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases10%
at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging14%
maybe, could, relatively
Passive Voice10%
are seen, be avoided, be interpreted
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, prescription, medication
Subordination11%
because, though, whereas
Sentence Length52%
Avg: 18.0 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers10%
empirical evidence, theoretical framework
Impersonal Style39%
385 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
automatically, family, lately

Description

Cullen Roche, the author of the financial blog Pragmatic Capitalism, explains why he went from an adherent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to one of its loudest critics.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.