The rebirth of industrial policy

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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(Originally aired August 2022) Vox senior correspondent Dylan Matthews sits down with Felicia Wong (@FeliciaWongRI), president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, to talk about a new era of industrial policy. They discuss the theory of modern supply-side economics, the passage of the Inflation Reduction and CHIPS acts, and how much common ground exists between the political left and the right. Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer A.M. Hall, editorial director Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds.
1:01.5	I'm your host this week Dylan Matthews and this week we are going to be talking about
1:05.8	the supply side.
1:08.0	You know a wise man once said we used to make shit in this country.
1:12.3	We used to make shit in this country, build shit.
1:17.3	Now we should put our hand in the next guy's pocket.
1:20.7	Put another way or perhaps more delicately in recent decades more and more of the US economy
1:25.0	has gone to finance, whereas manufacturing and industry and building actual physical
1:30.0	things hasn't been as much of a focus.
1:33.2	And that's led to shortages of things like housing in major cities and access to clean
1:38.0	energy and pathways to access that energy.
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