Christopher Leonard: How Today's Inflationary Crisis is Likely to Further Inflame Our Democratic Crisis


Author: Andrew Keen June 15, 2022 Duration: 36:04
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Christopher Leonard: How Today's Inflationary Crisis is Likely to Further Inflame Our Democratic Crisis

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.


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