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🗓️ 3 March 2020
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0:00.0 | Greetings there listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the Dispatch and |
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0:50.4 | Donors Trust more about them in a minute or two or 20. So today we have my friend my colleague |
1:00.4 | one of the most dispeptic people I know the director of economic studies at the American Enterprise |
1:06.8 | Institute and the author of an eminently readable which is very rare I can tell you readable and |
1:14.2 | I'm holding it up like you people can see it. It's a book but it's it's it's it's the kind of thing |
1:22.3 | you could read on a flight it's it's light it's it's the right length it's the right length it's |
1:27.4 | the fresco of economic analyses and it is the American dream is not dead but populism could kill it |
1:36.8 | Michael strain. Glide it to have you here. Thank you for having me back. So you were like one of my |
1:43.5 | econ guys like when I don't understand something I ask you these kinds of things and you were saying |
1:47.2 | something we typically make it up well yeah one of the things so I mean you were you were saying |
1:51.4 | something interesting before we started recording and I wanted to ask with you you say you hated |
1:56.4 | poor people and you want to see them suffer because they deserve it is that am I quoting you |
2:02.1 | accurately I mean that's that's basically the gist of it yeah and and and and they deserve what |
2:07.8 | they're getting and and who are we to interfere with that. In fact they should have it worse than |
2:11.9 | they currently do. Why do we think we should come in and mess with the natural order of things. |
2:16.6 | Yeah all right okay so you were not infecting that but you have written this book which has what I |
2:23.2 | like many charts and tables and things I can understand because pictures are easier. |
2:30.2 | In many ways it's like it is the anti Thomas Piketty book. |
2:35.4 | Sure which I had to read that thing that that what was it the capital thing and I wrote a like a |
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