This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, June 7th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's sweeping economic plan

has yet to be fully fleshed out, but its elements include a more

actively managed U.S. currency, trade agreements with an explicit focus on American jobs,

and a new Department of Economic Development that would, among other things, manage

programs related to trade.

Cato's Simon Lester comments.

Under the guise of protecting American jobs, Elizabeth Warren has unveiled her plan for what she calls economic

patriotism. This sounds a lot like America first. It sounds like the kind of thing that you could offer up in defense of things like

tariffs. She offers it up as a defense on higher taxes on the wealth of extremely wealthy people in the United States.

What do you make of what she's laid out?

And I should mention this was an article that her team placed on medium.

Yeah and I think she actually gave this as a speech.

I didn't sort of actually, I didn't verify that.

The way I saw it reported was she actually delivered this as a speech as well.

And it seems like she's, for the America first vote. You know, she's trying to reach

out to Trump voters who some people think were swayed by that message and seeing if she can see she see if she can bring them along bringing them into her

fold and I don't rule out that it's possible that it works as a matter of

politics what we'll see in terms of policy if one thing I would say is there's still more to come here. So what

she's given us so far focuses on manufacturing, but she says in there that there's more

stuff coming and she mentions trade policy. So we may get some more details on

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