Doing the numbers on campaign promises
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a new study this morning, looking at how the Harris and Trump campaigns’ spending plans would affect the national debt. Both estimates are pretty dire. We’ll hear the latest. Plus, the global private equity market was worth $579 billion in 2000; today, it’s worth over $8 trillion. But is there trouble ahead for private equity?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
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| 1:01.0 | Anyone? For Marketplace, I'm Nova Safo in for David Brancaccio. |
| 1:06.8 | The nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget released a new study this morning. |
| 1:11.6 | It's looking at how the spending proposals of both |
| 1:14.3 | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would affect the national debt and it looks pretty |
| 1:19.8 | dire. Marketplace says Nancy Marshall Genser joins me now live with the details. Good morning, |
| 1:25.3 | Good morning. |
| 1:26.9 | So what are the numbers? |
| 1:29.4 | The committee for responsible federal budget says former President Donald Trump |
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