On International Podcast Day, we bring you yet another interview from across the Atlantic. In our fourth episode Aidan Regan, the director of University College Dublin's Jean Monnet Centre on the New Political Economy of Europe, talks with economic historian and University of Virginia professor Herman Mark Schwartz. Aidan and Mark discuss housing finance on either side of the Atlantic, the origins of the 2008 crisis, and how the dollar's dominance affects Europe's economic development.

• You can find additional information on Herman Mark Schwartz's work at https://politics.virginia.edu/herman-schwartz/
• More about the New Political Economy of Europe project at www.newpoliticaleconomyeurope.eu/