Marshall here.

Welcome back to the realignment.

Today's episode is about one of the biggest economic challenges facing the United States. For too many people and in almost

every imaginable aspect of American society the cost of living and therefore the

cost of almost everything is grown way too high.

My guest today is Gary Winslet of the Chamber of Progress

and Middlebury College, and we discuss how not only do we have to deal

with the 2021-plus spike in inflation, but the broader story over how the past several decades, the cost of anything you could imagine from manufacturing and childcare to healthcare housing infrastructure has increased at a rate which

has prevented us from building this type of world we want to actually live in.

In this conversation we cover his new report on how we can address the cost of living crisis via supply

side progressivism and of course some of this podcast is very interested in the

overall abundance agenda. Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation for important to work at this

podcast. I hope you all enjoy and gain something from this conversation. Gary Winslet, welcome to the Realignment.

Great to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

Excited to chat with you. We're going to hit a bunch of different topics, but I think we should start with some wonky news the audience can use.

There was a bunch of big permitting reform legislation passed in Congress this week.

That seems to be super niche, not particularly relevant, but can you just start by explaining

what permitting reform is and why anyone who's attracted this topic should be incredibly excited about what's happened.

So a couple years ago we had the Chips and Sciences Act, which is about promoting semiconductor

manufacturing in the United States, right? There's a whole reason

geopolitically competing with China but also to promote technology that we

want semiconductors built in the United States. But the problem is, because the government would be helping to finance those,

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