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Bryan Cutsinger on the What the History of Growth Driven Deflation Can Teach us about a Potential AI Boom
Episode 515
Bryan Cutsinger is a monetary historian and an assistant professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University. Bryan returns to the show to discuss how we think about deflation, the history of growth driven deflation, the connection between the postbellum period and today, the potential of rapid productivity growth from AI, and much more.
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Recorded on September 23rd, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:41 - Rethinking Deflation
00:35:48 - Rapid Productivity Growth from AI
00:46:35 - Tolerating Deflation
00:55:28 - Outro
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