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The D&S Debrief

Interview: Crypto, the Financial System, and Trump

An Interview with Gerald Epstein

D&S Admin Jul 29, 2025

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Last week D&S co-editor Chris Sturr interviewed Gerald Epstein, author of Crypto: What Is It and What Is All the Fuss About?, the latest post on our new blog, Left Hook Economics (available here on the D&S website and also on Substack).

You can listen to the interview here:

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This episode of The D&S Debrief aired as part of the July 24th episode of Economics for the People on KKFI in Kansas City. You can listen to the full episode here.

GERALD EPSTEIN is a professor of economics and co-director at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), UMass-Amherst.

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