Orality
Model
87%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,784 words)
M:93%
HostTracy Alloway(1,109 words)
M:29%
GuestDavid Beckworth(2,943 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic16%
definitely, crazy, very
Engagement67%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
dollar (86x), it's (64x), know (45x)
Parallelism84%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But yeah...., But roughly the same....
Sound Patterns57%
35 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases10%
you know what, i mean, to be honest
Literate Indicators
Hedging13%
rather, maybe, arguably
Passive Voice7%
was caused, is when, be overvalued
Abstract Nouns17%
investment, addition, conversation
Subordination8%
because, though, while
Sentence Length39%
Avg: 14.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style33%
411 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style90%
roughly, seriously, really
Description
For years, people have been predicting the demise of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. Although the U.S. economy has been shrinking as a share of the world's GDP, the dollar continues to grow ever more dominant. Yet its strength is increasingly cited as a factor behind economic problems around the world. On this week's Odd Lots, the economist David Beckworth, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, explains the dollar's persistent and growing strength. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.