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The Gist

It's an Economist's World

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Trump's lightbulbs. In the interview, economists weren't always at the levers of public policy in America. The New York Times' Binyamin Appelbaum tracked the profession's post-war movement into power, and how the laissez-faire philosophy economists (by and large) brought with them has failed us. Appelbaum is the author of The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society. In the Spiel, hurricanes and global warming. Want to see a special episode of The Gist live in New York? Get your tickets here! 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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0:00.0

Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.

0:03.6

Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deen cleaner.

0:09.6

You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.

0:14.0

Find your carcass deen cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcass retailer.

0:20.0

The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit than May.

0:26.0

Let's just say it may.

0:31.0

It's Friday, September 6, 2019 from Slated to the Gestime Mike Pasca.

0:36.0

The Trump administration strained dangerously close to an almost mandatory reference to dim bulbs.

0:42.0

Because they have reversed an Obama administration ruling about LED light bulbs.

0:49.0

You've probably heard about this. And even if you hadn't heard the specifics,

0:53.0

as soon as I started talking about what the Trump administration stance was on an Obama administration rule,

0:59.0

you knew where this thing was going.

1:02.0

If the Obama administration decided that a sitting president should not step in dog shit,

1:07.0

the Trump administration would be gleefully leaping into the cacao tomorrow morning.

1:13.0

But with the bulbs, I have noticed something specific.

1:17.0

It is contained in this phrase as mentioned by Jeff Brady, an NPR.

1:21.0

You see the pear-shaped LEDs everywhere now.

1:25.0

Or as the New York Times reported of the Trump's super genius smart plan,

1:29.0

quote,

1:30.0

the proposed changes would eliminate requirements that effectively meant that most light bulbs sold in the United States,

1:36.0

not only the familiar pear-shaped ones,

1:39.0

but several other styles as well must be either LEDs or fluorescent to meet new efficiency standards.

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