Mehrsa Baradaran on How COVID-19 is Exposing Existing Societal Wealth Gaps and Financial Access C...

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California Irvine and researches banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books, How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Mehrsa joins Macro Musings to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and how existing wealth conditions and financial access challenges are exacerbating the crisis. David and Mehrsa also discuss the historical context for the racial wealth gap, why banking deserts are so consequential, and how a postal savings system may be a solution to the financial inclusion problem.

Transcripts for the episode can be found here. (www.mercatus.o...)

Mehrsa’s Twitter: @MehrsaBaradaran
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