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Inflation, The Deficit & Why the Dollar Stays King with Benn Steil | The Real Eisman Playbook Ep 81

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Episode Inflation, The Deficit & Why the Dollar Stays King with Benn Steil | The Real Eisman Playbook Ep 81

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On episode 81 of The Real Eisman Playbook, Steve Eisman sits down with Benn Steil, Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations for a conversation covering today’s inflation dilemma, the dollar’s exorbitant privilege versus France’s sovereign bond crisis, and why the trajectory of US debt is ugly even if the doomsayers have been wrong for 40 years.

00:00 - Intro

00:40 - The Fed, Inflation, & Rates

08:50 - Scott Bessent

13:11 - The Federal Deficit

22:20 - France

27:20 - Henry Wallace

39:15 - Bretton Woods

46:28 - The Marshall Plan

49:08 - Outro

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