Is there an affordability crisis?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has announced or proposed several measures to address the cost of living. These moves come against the backdrop of an uncertain economic outlook, as voters have expressed concern about rising prices and financial markets have experienced significant selloffs. While President Trump has maintained that the economy remains strong, some Republicans have called on him to refocus his agenda on affordability issues ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Tuesday, November 18th, and today we are talking about the latest on the U.S. economy. |
| 0:36.5 | There's a lot here. |
| 0:37.7 | President Trump has been throwing out all kinds of proposals |
| 0:40.9 | from 50-year mortgages to $2,000 checks |
| 0:43.8 | for everybody making under $100,000 a year. |
| 0:47.1 | There's debates about interest rate cuts, |
| 0:49.6 | things happening at the Fed. |
| 0:50.8 | We're going to get into all of that today. |
| 0:53.5 | Ari Weissman, our managing editor, |
| 0:55.5 | is on the take. I have a dissent. So I'll be recording that. We've got a listener question |
| 1:02.0 | that we're going to tackle. And before we jump into all that, I want to give you a heads up that my |
| 1:06.7 | interview with Alex Thompson, the author of Original Sin, which was the book about the cover-up of |
| 1:13.1 | President Joe Biden's mental decline. He sat down with me for 25 minutes-ish at our event in |
| 1:22.6 | Irvine, California, before he went on stage. We recorded the whole thing. The interview is now up |
| 1:27.2 | on our YouTube channel, Tangle News on YouTube. We recorded the whole thing. The interview is now up on our YouTube |
| 1:27.8 | channel, Tangle News on YouTube. We got to talk about the lessons the press should learn from the |
| 1:34.2 | scandal, who he thinks is going to run for president in 2028. Alex is one of the most well-sourced |
| 1:40.6 | reporters in Washington, D.C. He's a really straight news guy. |
| 1:44.8 | He writes for Axios. |
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