Jessica Riedl: The Last Fiscal Conservative

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Charlie Sykes welcomes Jessica Riedl of the Manhattan Institute for a conversation on the state of the U.S. economy under Trump 2.0. They cover everything from fantasy math in drug pricing claims to the White House’s assault on economic data, growing authoritarian tendencies, and the chaos of tariff policy. Plus, they dig into the gerrymandering arms race—and whether defending democracy now means playing just as dirty.

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1:40.9	Welcome back to To the Contrary podcast.
1:43.5	I'm Charlie Sykes. And we need to talk about economics today because there's just so much going on. So we're joined again by our good friend Jessica Riddle, who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the last remaining fiscal conservative in America. So thanks for coming back, Jessica.
2:01.6	Glad to be back.
2:02.4	Thank you.
2:03.7	Do you sometimes feel like you're like one of these Japanese soldiers still fighting World
2:06.7	War II in like 1970?
2:08.5	Do they find you on an island every once in a while?
2:10.3	I go, wow, do you know the war's over?
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