462. The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The man who wants America to “think harder” has parlayed his quixotic presidential campaign into front-runner status in New York’s mayoral election. And he has some big plans.

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0:00.0	New York City's economy is so big that if New York were a country, it would be, I believe
0:08.4	the 11th biggest GDP in the world between Canada and Russia.
0:13.3	So as mayor of New York City, that would make you a perfect combination of Justin Trudeau
0:20.1	and Vladimir Putin.
0:21.1	Would you say that sums up Andrew Yang pretty well?
0:23.7	Hopefully a lot more Trudeau.
0:28.6	You may have noticed that we don't interview too many politicians on Frekenomics radio.
0:32.7	Why not?
0:33.7	To be honest, they don't really say that much.
0:36.2	At least not much of the stuff we are interested in.
0:39.0	This show tries to use data and research and logic to explore how the world works, maybe
0:45.8	how to improve the world.
0:47.8	Many politicians use emotion and bluster to bend things toward their worldview, and they
0:54.0	tend to be more ideological than logical.
0:56.6	I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.
0:58.8	Well, I guess I am.
1:00.5	In any case, that's just not what we do.
1:02.6	But occasionally you do encounter someone in the political arena who is a little bit different,
1:08.4	even a lot different.
1:09.8	That would describe today's guest.
1:11.8	I am Andrew Yang and I am running to be mayor of New York City.
1:15.6	We've actually had Yang on the show before, two years ago, when he was just starting out
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