Hey Pitch Fork Listeners, this is Ashley, one of the producers on the show.

Wanted to let you know that the episode and interview with Heather Boucher that you're about to hear

was recorded before President Joe Biden announced that he would not continue seeking re-election for a second term.

So please keep that in mind as you listen.

The rising inequality and growing political instability that we see today are the direct result of decades

of bad economic theory.

It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down.

Middle out economics is the answer.

Because Wall Street didn't build this country.

Great middle class built this country.

The more the middle class thrives the better the economy from the middle out.

Welcome to the show. One of the things that really pisses me off, Nick, about the way the press is covering the presidential election,

is how shallow they've been on economic issues, on economic policy, how little talk there has been about the Biden administration's

accomplishments and the benefits that we're experiencing now, how strong the economy is compared to the rest of the world and why and instead just focusing you know on his age whether he's a good debater. You just see nothing in the press that actually educates

voters about the economy. Yeah, it's true. It's a shame, but it is complicated and you know to a certain

extent. You know, you don't want to do

anything complicated like the New York Times exactly better to look at a a historic

speech on saving democracy and your lead is oh he didn't stumble or look at the debate the

debate purely from a horse race perspective and not talk at all about the the fascist promises coming

up. But this is an economics podcast Nick and fortunately we have somebody here today who can talk about the

what the Biden administration policy and the impact it's been having on our economy.

That's true we're very privileged to get to talk to our old

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