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The David McWilliams Podcast

161 - Sitting down with Bernie Sanders

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6643 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week we want to bring you a great conversation that I had with Bernie Sanders at the Dalkey Book Festival a few weeks ago. Senator Sanders touches on the current economic climate of politics in the states, the Biden agenda and where he wants to push the budget committee.

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0:34.2

What in the world is happening on Wall Street?

0:36.5

Economic indicators. Who knows where this is going on Wall Street? Economic indicators.

0:38.1

Who knows where this is going to end up?

0:40.1

To understand the economy, you have to understand human nature.

0:46.3

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0:51.9

How you're doing there?

0:53.1

It's podcast time, but it is August and we're all a little bit,

0:57.2

I'm kind of hollier mode, you know, we're trying to take a little bit of time off, etc.

1:00.9

I'm sure you are. I'm sure you've had kind of a mare of a year with all the bloody COVID,

1:04.9

and now the Delta, and are we going back? Are we not going back? All that sort of stuff.

1:08.7

So what we've decided to do is give you some fascinating conversations that we had at the

1:14.6

Daukey Book Festival a couple of weeks ago.

1:17.9

The first one is a conversation between myself and Bernie Sanders.

1:21.6

Now, Bernie Sanders, well, obviously everybody knows who he is, but I've got to know Bernie

1:26.1

over the years, and I'm now, as John always kind of scoffs, he said he'd let him anybody into his club.

1:31.4

Bernie has a think tank called the Sanders Institute, and I'm on the board of that, and that allows me, or that one of the responsibilities is to go over to Vermont and talk to Bernie about economics, economic policy, about global economics. So it's always

1:46.8

been a fascinating discussion. He's an exceptionally interesting man, really, really courageous man,

1:54.8

and somebody I like a lot. Also, he happens to be the head of the US Budget Committee.

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