Harris’ hazy plan to ban price gouging
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Since Vice President Harris proposed a federal ban on price gouging in the food and grocery industries, her campaign has offered up few details about what the policy would actually look like. That’s left room for wild speculation. We’ll get into it. And, we’ll debunk former President Trump’s claims that the Biden administration manipulated job data to influence the election. Plus, the future of V2X technology on our roadways and the National Women’s Soccer League’s historic move to do away with drafts.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “And today Trump and his allies are being dishonest about jobs data” from The Washington Post
- “US job totals will likely be revised down by 818,000 as Trump cries fraud” from Politico
- “Commerce Sec. Raimondo on VP Harris: She’s pro-business, pro-worker, and opposed to price-fixing” from CNBC
- “FTC to investigate high grocery prices” from Marketplace
- “Harris’s Price-Gouging Ban: Price Controls or No Quick Effect?” from The New York Times
- “DOT plans to implement V2X technology raise privacy concerns” from Marketplace
- “The U.S. Sports League That Just Scrapped the Draft—and Made Everyone a Free Agent” from The Wall Street Journal
- “National Women’s Soccer League and its players agree to a new contract deal” from NPR
Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap. The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
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| 0:42.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Kyle Risdol. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. It's Thursday, today the 22nd of August. |
| 0:52.0 | Today we're going to listen back to some of the big stories of the week, audio versions. |
| 0:56.6 | I mean, I guess the whole thing is audio because it's a podcast. |
| 0:58.9 | Anyway, our first audio clip today is about something we've been talking about for a couple |
| 1:04.4 | days now the revised job growth data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that we |
| 1:09.1 | talked about on Tuesday and Wednesday we're going to talk about it again today because it's important |
| 1:13.8 | and it's another installment of bonkers economics things coming out of the campaign |
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