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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

212: The State of The Economy with Roger Altman

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News, News Commentary, Politics, National, Government

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

James and Al lament the Trumpist takeover of the House Oversight Committee and the expiry of childcare support, and talk with financial maven Roger Altman.  They look at the improving strength of the economy, and weigh the options of Jay Powell as the risks of recession and inflation's dangers seem to be declining.  Then, they break down the effects of China’s economic malaise and why they won’t surpass us, and explain why one of our biggest upcoming challenges will be spending the massive funds allocated to our country from the infrastructure bill and other initiatives. 

Email your questions to James and Al at politicswarroom@gmail.com or tweet them to @politicon.  Make sure to include your city, we love to hear where you’re from!

Get More From This Week’s Guest:

Roger Altman:
Evercore | The Hamilton Project 


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

0:17.2

This week our guest is the former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and

0:22.4

a big wig on Wall Street, a really great financial expert, Roger Altman, the Chairman

0:28.6

of Evercore.

0:29.6

Remember, we love taking your questions so right into Politics War Room at gmail.com or

0:35.4

send a tweet to adpleticon for next week's show.

0:37.9

Now we're going to get to as many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're

0:41.4

from.

0:42.4

Please check out the links to our recent sponsors.

0:45.3

We thank you for supporting these sponsors because it helps make this podcast happen.

0:49.6

Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

0:54.5

or wherever you get your podcast.

0:58.6

And you know James Carville, we see polls usually multiple polls every day.

1:09.4

We're not much surprised by them.

1:11.4

They tend to show the same thing.

1:13.6

Every now and then one just jumps out at you and I think this past week the Associated

1:17.9

Press University of Chicago survey did that.

1:21.2

It showed that voters think simply Joe Biden is too old to be present for four more years

1:27.4

and Donald Trump is too corrupt.

1:30.6

If we had the old system where leaders or bosses held swayed, I had lots of problems.

1:34.7

I'm not advocating going all the way back to that.

1:37.9

There's a good chance there would be a serious effort to replace both of them.

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