September 30, 2019· 41 min
How Financial Repression in China Helped Cause the Trade War
Orality
Model
82%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,092 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,533 words)
M:27%
GuestMichael Pettis(3,948 words)
M:27%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic41%
very, huge, amazing
Engagement55%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, right
Repetition100%
china (65x), it's (54x), they (46x)
Parallelism96%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So, Joe, you know there's a ve..., And it's actually really impor...
Sound Patterns39%
27 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging13%
could, maybe, probably
Passive Voice3%
is closed, be funded, be absorbed
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, connection, consumption
Subordination11%
because, since, though
Sentence Length44%
Avg: 16.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style45%
386 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
internationally, apply, actually
Description
For years, China has experienced blistering growth. Driven by an investment-heavy economic model, this growth has limited household income while subsidizing business. This system worked extraordinarily well for years, but the system has recently been hitting its limits. On this week's Odd Lots, we speak with Michael Pettis, a longtime China expert who serves as a finance professor at Peking University as well as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment. He explains why China must rebalance its domestic economy, and how its domestic policies helped contribute to today's trade tensions with the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.