Hello and

Hello and welcome to the Bullard Comcast I'm your host Tim Miller.

It is Super Tuesday and so we're going to just take a little step back from politics since tomorrow

We'll have plenty of breakdown of what happened in our various primaries to the extent that they're still actually happening

So today I wanted to talk a little bit about the economy and related issues

with one of my favorite bulwark guests ever,

Catherine Rampel, syndicated opinion columnist at the Washington Post.

She's also an economic and political commentator for

CNN and special correspondent for PBS News Hour. I'm always clicking when Charlie

had you, Catherine, so I'm happy that you're back.

I'm delighted to join you.

Thanks for having me again.

It'll be good.

Okay.

So I wanted to start with the biggest picture economy question,

as it does kind of really directly to our politics really and my colleague

Jonathan last has been on this for a while now what he says is that we're

living in an economic mass delusion that the economy is actually quite good and that people's

sentiments about the economy are the problem. He points out that in the entire

history of the optimistic index survey which is a survey of small business

owners and how optimistic they feel about the economy. We're currently in the

widest gulf between what's actually happening in business and what they think

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