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Tom Streithorst

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As seen in: VICE, VICE UK, Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Conservative, Prospect Magazine
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Tom Streithorst’s Biography

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Based in London, Tom Streithorst writes about finance, economics, politics, international relations and art. He has directed documentaries in war zones, produced award winning commercials, and covered news stories on five continents.

He was born in Beirut and grew up in Latin America, Europe, and Indochina, following his war reporter father around the globe.

After graduating with honours from Princeton University, Tom plunged into the television industry, traveling from Congo to Cuba, from…

Tom Streithorst’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Radical Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money

The Radical Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money

Two hundred activists and academics meet for the first ever Modern Monetary Theory conference in Kansas City,…

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Why Your Rent Is So High and Your Pay Is So Low - Los Angeles Review of Books

Why Your Rent Is So High and Your Pay Is So Low - Los Angeles Review of Books

IN THE 1950s, the average New York City apartment rented for $60 a month - around $530 in today's money. With…

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The Economics of Mad Max and Star Trek - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Economics of Mad Max and Star Trek - Los Angeles Review of Books

WE HAVE TWO OPPOSING VISIONS of the future. In one, technology has advanced so far it seems almost magic. We …

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The wizards of austerity | Prospect Magazine

The wizards of austerity | Prospect Magazine

Austerity is more likely to kill the patient than cure him.

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Hobbes Was Right: Anarchy Sucks

Hobbes Was Right: Anarchy Sucks

Hobbes was right. Without the government monopoly on violence, life is nasty brutish and short.

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Why the World's Biggest Military Keeps Losing Wars

Why the World's Biggest Military Keeps Losing Wars

Before Korea, America never lost a war. Ever since, other than the first Gulf War, it hasn't won any. In Viet…

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Articles

Three Dead White Guys Can Fix the Economy

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Vice March 2017 https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9amd4v/these-three-dead-guys-can-fix-our-broken-economy Obstinate ignorance is usually a manifestation of underlying political motives. Michal Kalecki We seem to be reliving the 1930s, first time as tragedy, second time as farce. For the financial crisis, read the stock market crash, for austerity, the gold standard, for right-wing authoritarian populism, well, right-wing authoritarian populism.
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Secular Stagnation, Then and Now

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MARCH 5, 2015 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, and the great recession it engendered, is pushing mainstream economists to the left. Hyman Minsky, during his life a marginal figure, is now quoted everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to IMF working papers. Martin Wolf, probably the most influential financial journalist of our era, actually argued for monetizing the debt, a policy traditionally associated with Weimar Germany or Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
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Three Cheers for Financial Repression

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Evonomics January 2018 Actually, it’s more like Financial Liberation “Financial repression.” It sounds terrifying, right? It smacks of authoritarian bureaucrats sucking the life-blood out of hard-working, innovative makers and doers. Umm, no. That’s not even close. It’s about bondholders. Economists started using the term in the 1970s when bondholders were losing money because inflation exceeded the interest rate.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Chief Cameraman/Editor for WDAM in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Who do you wish followed you?

Brad DeLong. And Larry Summers. And Martin Wolf.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

I interviewed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, in his South Beirut lair in 2000. Also Post Scarcity Economics in the LA Review.