Ignoring the Need Economy

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On the Gist, the Republicans are misers. In the interview, Zephyr Teachout is here to discuss her new book Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ad, Big Tech, and Big Money. She and Mike discuss how monopolies have come to dominate so many of our industries, the work that needs to be done to break them up, and why it's a multi-pronged solution. They also touch on Gov. Cuomo's response to the pandemic and how her team might have been different if she'd won office. In the spiel, baseball tried. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.0	It's Monday, July 27th, 2020, from slate to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:47.0	The Republicans in the Senate are debating the details of a new stimulus bill
0:51.2	that an alien American economy badly needs.
0:53.7	Well, not debating so much as dithering and dickering.
0:57.3	But actually their dickering has led to dithering,
1:01.1	that is, the proper chronological sequence, dithering, meaning delay,
1:05.3	dickering, meaning dispute.
1:07.4	So the delayed debate, inter-divisional dithering,
1:10.2	has led to a disputatious dickering that characterizes the desensis
1:14.7	among a diversity of Republicans.
1:16.9	If I were to give them a letter grade, it would be a date.
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