Hey gang, today on Pittsburgh economics, I get to speak to Andrew Yang, former presidential

candidate and current candidate for mayor of the city of New York, Andrew's an old friend

and a big UBI supporter, and he and I are going to get to talk about that and the alternatives

that we mostly work on, which is raising wages and all other aspects of political economy.

I'm really excited to talk to him and this podcast will be both posted here at Pittsburgh

Economics, but also on his podcast, Yang speaks.

So I hope you enjoy it and let's talk to Andrew.

It is my pleasure and thrill to welcome to the podcast.

I've been wanting to get on here for a while, serial entrepreneur, civic activist, founder

of civic ventures, pitchfork economics, rabble rouser extraordinaire, Nick Hanauer, Nick,

welcome.

Thank you, Andrew.

It's so great to catch up with you.

Seriously, so Nick, I became a fan of yours when you wrote that piece in Politico that I

guess ended up kicking off the term pitchfork economics where you were like, hey, FYI,

the pitchforks are coming for us.

And I was like, holy crap, somebody said it.

And it had to be someone like you who had had incredible business success and founded

and invested in name brand companies.

And so at one point, you were like, I remember that article was so well, you were like,

look, guys, I'm in the top 1% and there are only so many pants I can buy.

No, for sure.

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