Checks and Balance: Growth states
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s not long since America was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead the economy expanded by 3% in 2023, and continues to defy expectations. But why aren’t voters happier with Joe Biden’s economy?
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by The Economist’s Simon Rabinovitch and Neale Mahoney, professor of economics at Stanford University.
Thank you to the William J. Clinton Library and the UVA Miller Center for some of the audio used in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Checks and Balance. |
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| 0:15.0 | Funding from Horizon Europe's 80 billion pound fund is now available to UK innovators and businesses including |
| 0:24.8 | SMEs from engineering to the creative industries. So if you have an idea that you want |
| 0:30.0 | to make reality, search Horizon Europe Innovate UK and apply for the funding you need for your |
| 0:36.0 | R&D project. For terms and conditions and to see how you or your business can qualify, |
| 0:41.2 | visit Iuk.K.K.10uk.K.org. The Economist. |
| 0:58.0 | Made of metal, normally aluminium more steel and shaped like a bucket with a close fitting lid and a handle. |
| 1:05.0 | Dinner pales were slightly cumbersome things, but they were insulated so American workers' lunches |
| 1:11.0 | would still be hot when it came time to eat. |
| 1:14.3 | They were common around the turn of the century when President William McKinley was seeking |
| 1:18.1 | re-election. |
| 1:19.7 | In 1900, the economy was booming and McKinley wanted to make the most of this to shore up the labor vote. |
| 1:26.1 | He turned to the humble pale to illustrate how good Americans and their stomachs had it. Four more years of the full dinner pale adorned posters, buttons and cartoons. |
| 1:37.0 | He won the election easily. |
| 1:41.0 | Joe Biden is hoping that a surprisingly strong economy will carry him to four more years in office. |
| 1:47.0 | So far, voters don't seem to be buying it. |
| 1:50.0 | With 235 days to go until the 2024 election, I'm John Prido, and this is |
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