BONUS: What to listen for in the second round of presidential debates

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The second round of presidential debates are quickly approaching. The debates move fast, and we know there’s a lot to sift through—so allow us to make it easier on you! In this pre-debates briefing, Nick and Zach lay out exactly what kind of economics talk you should be listening for ahead of next Tuesday and Wednesday’s festivities. Further reading: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/26/democratic-debate-economy-middle-class-analysis-growth-227217

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0:00.0	I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:06.0	Hey, I'm Zach Silk and I'm the president of Civic Ventures.
0:09.0	The debates are coming.
0:10.0	The debates are coming.
0:12.0	Yeah, as we know there are debates that are
0:16.6	happening this summer for the Democratic primary. We've already had one set of
0:19.9	them and we have the next set coming next week and we thought that our
0:24.4	listeners might be interested in hearing what we thought about those debates so
0:28.0	I thought I'd talk to you today about it that's great that's great so in the
0:32.2	lead up to the last debates we had been asked by
0:35.9	Politico to give your thoughts. Yeah so you wrote a piece called a
0:40.5	sympathetic zillionaires advice to Democrats tonight.
0:44.0	The GOP thinks it owns you on economics,
0:46.8	but you're actually the party of growth.
0:48.9	Don't blow it.
0:50.8	And that was basically our advice.
0:53.5	Yes, that is that it has been super frustrating over almost a decade now.
1:00.5	How hard it has been to get Democrats when speaking about the economy to rotate from just
1:09.4	fairness talk to growth.
1:12.3	And that's because even most Democrats are owned by
1:16.6	neoliberalism. They have been brainwashed by neoclassical economics and
1:20.5	neoliberalism and they also sort of intuitively believe or actually believe that among other things
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