April 15, 2021· 54 min

Zach Carter on the Real Story of Weimar Hyperinflation

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,495 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,198 words)
M:29%
GuestZach Carter(6,621 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic54%
literally, completely, crazy
Engagement55%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, see
Repetition100%
know (111x), it's (95x), like (80x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So I remember, for instance Ye..., And now, of course, the idea t...
Sound Patterns28%
28 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
let me tell you, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging7%
could, may, maybe
Passive Voice13%
are referred, been assigned, is heralded
Abstract Nouns21%
investment, recommendation, substitution
Subordination6%
because, though, since
Sentence Length53%
Avg: 18.2 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers3%
according to
Impersonal Style45%
549 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style92%
literally, completely, really

Description

Whenever the government is engaging in fiscal or monetary expansion, people like to invoke the history of Weimar Germany and how soon we might all go around transporting dollars in wheelbarrows. But what really happened with Weimar and how did it come about? On this episode, we speak with Zach Carter, the author of the best-selling book “The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.” He explains how the story of collapse of the German currency was less about money printing and more about domestic political collapse and the destruction of the country's productive base. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.