US Inflation, Woke Capitalism & China w/ Darren Brady Nelson + weird Aussie tax rules - EP127

<p>With US inflation at a 40-year high, who wins and who loses? Are greedy corporations to blame as some pundits are suggesting? A wide-ranging conversation with Darren Brady Nelson, Chief Economist of LibertyWorks, an Australian libertarian think tank, which also considers so-called Woke Capitalism and what’s going on with China. In the second part of the show, the Grattan Institute’s Economic Policy Program Director Brendan Coates explains the franking credits controversy, related to some peculiar Australian tax rules, to show host Gene Tunny.   </p><h3>About this episode’s guests</h3><p><a href="https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/d-brady-nelson" target="_blank">Darren Brady Nelson</a> is an Austrian School economist and liberty evangelion as well as a C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton style Christian. He is currently the Chief Economist at LibertyWorks of Brisbane Australia and a long-time policy advisor to The Heartland Institute of Chicago USA. He is also a regular commentator in traditional and online Australian and American media. Check out his full profile at <a href="https://economicsexplored.com/regular-guests/" target="_blank">Regular guests – Economics Explored</a>.</p><p><a href="https://grattan.edu.au/expert/brendan-coates/" target="_blank">Brendan Coates</a> is the Economic Policy Program Director at Grattan Institute, where he leads Grattan’s work on tax and transfer system reform, retirement incomes and superannuation, housing, macroeconomics, and migration. He is a former macro-financial economist with the World Bank in Indonesia and consulted to the Bank in Latin America. Prior to that, he worked in the Australian Treasury in areas such as tax-transfer system reform and macro-economic forecasting, with a strong focus on the Chinese economy.</p><h3>Links relevant to the conversation</h3><p><a href="https://americafirstpolicy.com/latest/20220204-americans-return-to-work" target="_blank">Americans Return to Work as Biden Administration Work Disincentives Expire, but Jobs Remain Over 7 mill