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 second 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 contribution of hedge funds
• Why finance is a top target of the inequality alarmists
• The causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Other Resources:

• The Debt Dialogues [Episode 48]: Yaron Brook on Finance (Part 1)
• 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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