Economic Update: The Great American Purge
December 6, 2018
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Episode 24 · December 6, 2018
Economic Update: The Great American Purge
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Economic Update: The Great American Purge
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<p>The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US anti-leftist purge ("McCarthyism") after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. Finally, it explains how that history produced a very different political response to the crash of 2008 compared to FDR's response to 1929.</p>
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