Welcome friends, you're watching the young Turks joining me today is Ryan Grim, DC bureau

chief over at the intercept host of Deconstructed, the podcast associated with the intercept,

and good friend of the show, Ryan, how are you?

I'm good, how you doing?

I'm doing okay, I'm doing okay. And of course, for those of you who might be tuning in for

the first time, I'm Anna Casperian, host of this show. And I'm doing great. I'm really excited

about the program today because I get to vent about what's really at play in regard to insane

housing prices. Some of you might have noticed that the housing market went from being overheated

to just being on fire to the point where most people, ordinary people can't even afford

to buy a home because they're not all cash buyers. We'll give you all the details at what's going on

behind the scenes on that issue. Joe Manchin continues to be a giant problem for Democrats in the Senate.

He has shared some of his opinions on the infrastructure bill. We'll talk about that.

And then later in the second hour, Janet Yellen, we might get to this in the first hour,

but later in the show Janet Yellen has an interesting plan to mitigate some of the damage

that's being done by offshore savings accounts. So we'll discuss that as well. But Ryan,

why don't we start off with something that you do really great reporting on. And that's, you know,

all of the different dynamics in Congress and what's likely to happen in regard to Biden's

infrastructure bill. So let's do it. Senator Joe Manchin is apparently against taxing the rich,

which means that he plans on being a massive pain when it comes to passing. Joe Biden's infrastructure

bill. Now as we had shared with you earlier, part of the way of passing that bill includes,

you know, tax increases for the wealthy and specifically a tax increase on corporations

from 21% to 28%. Now the corporate tax rate, of course, would not be as high as it was

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