December 1, 2023· 32 min

Lots More with Brad Setser

Brad Setser

Orality

Model

91%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,402 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(3,385 words)

M:93%

GuestBrad Setser(752 words)

M:94%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic30%

incredible, crazy, totally

Engagement74%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, so, like

Repetition100%

know (75x), like (70x), dollars (48x)

Parallelism87%

So have you heard the story ab..., So Singing country tunes from ..., And we really do have the perf...

Sound Patterns51%

33 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases12%

you know what, i mean, the thing is

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%

probably, maybe, could

Passive Voice7%

being interviewed, was interested, been eclipsed

Abstract Nouns22%

investment, prescription, medication

Subordination14%

until, because, though

Sentence Length30%

Avg: 12.6 words/sentence

Word Complexity50%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style26%

472 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

automatically, family, normally

Description

Argentina has always been interesting from an economic and financial markets perspective, to put it mildly. And it's gotten even more interesting following the recent election of Javier Milei as the country's next president. Milei, whose policies could be described as radically libertarian, has floated a bunch of new ideas including getting rid of the central bank and dollarizing Argentina's economy in order to finally put an end to rampant inflation. But how realistic is this path for a nation which has spent decades burning through loans from external creditors? This week on Lots More, we chat with Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about why Argentina's issues persist and what options it has going forward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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