3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?
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🗓️ 24 March 2010
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | so if you would please just |
| 0:01.7 | tell me your name and what you do |
| 0:03.2 | i'm john zogby pollster and i'm the side people |
| 0:06.4 | so john you know |
| 0:08.9 | what americans think about a lot of things |
| 0:11.8 | now what americans think about politicians the people running our country |
| 0:14.7 | right now |
| 0:15.3 | it's pretty much at a low point uh... right now |
| 0:19.9 | uh... members of congress get less than ten percent |
| 0:23.9 | positive uh... rating um... for performance and ethics |
| 0:28.7 | to give you an idea when we're talking single digit positive |
| 0:32.6 | back in nineteen ninety five oj |
| 0:35.0 | had a sixteen percent approval rating |
| 0:38.3 | uh... |
| 0:39.8 | so worse worse than uh... suspected murderers |
| 0:44.1 | uh... |
| 0:45.8 | maybe a tie |
| 0:46.9 | uh... but whatever it is it's not good |
| 0:49.5 | now what about lawyers how do americans feel about lawyers these days |
| 0:52.7 | uh... also not well lawyers in fact uh... |
| 0:56.3 | in in fact as of of of december specifically thirteen percent |
| 1:00.7 | positive rating uh... that put some a couple of four point ahead of uh... |
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