Guest Spotlight: Why Govt. Deficit Is a Good Thing | Are Algorithms Controlling Our Taste?

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and professor, Stephanie Kelton, joins Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng to break down the flexibilities of government finances despite being in a deficit and how the Modern Money Theory can help change how we interpret government spending. Also, Jordan and Ronny sit down with Kyle Chayka, New Yorker staff writer and author of "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture," to explain how the social media algorithms affect our taste and culture in real life.

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0:00.0	Rise and
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0:27.1	Subscribed to Morning Footy.
0:28.9	You're listening to Comedy Central. Our guest tonight is a professor of economics and public policy and the author of the
0:46.6	best-selling book The Deficit Myth.
0:48.6	She's featured in the new documentary Finding The Money.
0:50.9	Please welcome Stephanie Kelton.
0:53.0	Stephanie Kelton.
0:54.0	Stephanie,
0:56.0	Keltin. Stephanie,
1:02.0	welcome. Thank you. Stephanie, it's a fascinating documentary. I will say you are you are setting out
1:08.8	correct me if I'm wrong to fundamentally change how people see money.
1:14.4	Yeah.
1:15.4	That's a big ask.
1:17.4	And we got about seven minutes.
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