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Inflation, The Deficit & Why the Dollar Stays King with Benn Steil | The Real Eisman Playbook Ep 81

Oct 26, 2026 · 53m

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Sign up for The Real Eisman Playbook Premium at https://realeismanplaybook.substack.com/ On episode 81 of The Real Eisman Playbook, Steve Eisman sits down with Benn Steil, Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations for a conversation covering today’s inflation dilemma, the dollar’s exorbitant privilege versus France’s sovereign bond crisis, and why the trajectory of US debt is ugly even if the doomsayers have been wrong for 40 years. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - The Fed, Inflation, & Rates 08:50 - Scott Bessent 13:11 - The Federal Deficit 22:20 - France 27:20 - Henry Wallace 39:15 - Bretton Woods 46:28 - The Marshall Plan 49:08 - Outro Subscribe 👉🏻…