The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, the first of a three-part interview, I talk to ARI’s executive director Yaron Brook about the financial industry — one of the chief targets of the attacks on economic inequality. Topics include:

• The productive role of finance
• The meaning of “capital”
• Why finance is so reviled

Other Resources:

• The Debt Dialogues [Episode 18]: Yaron Brook on Inequality
• In Defense of Finance — Yaron Brook
• Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality — Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

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