Live from Seattle: A Weird Economy + Election = ??

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If the upcoming presidential election could be summed up by a song, what would it be? And will voters cast their ballots based on a bright future or a gloomy one? In a live-taping before an audience at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, Kate Linebaugh and Ryan Knutson sat down with WSJ political reporter Molly Ball to discuss these topics and more. To watch the video, check out the episode on Spotify. Further Reading: -Biden and Trump, In Two Speeches, Speak to Two Visions of America -Arizona is Booming, But Restless Voters Feel Downbeat About Economy Further Listening: -Trump Allies Draft Plans to Rein in the Fed -Why the Fed Is Steering Away From Rate Cuts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate. And Ryan. And we're excited to bring you a conversation we had
0:05.3	live in front of an actual audience. And if you listen on Spotify, you'll be able to
0:10.5	see a video of the event.
0:13.0	Enjoy.
0:18.0	All right, hello everyone.
0:19.0	Welcome to the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival.
0:21.6	I'm Ryan Knutzen, co-host of the Journal
0:23.8	podcast. We're a co-production of Spotify in the Wall Street Journal. And
0:27.3	today I'm joined by my co-host Kate Linebaugh and Wall Street Journal
0:31.7	political reporter Molly Ball for a discussion about this
0:35.2	weird economy that we're living in right now. Is it good? Is it bad? And what
0:39.8	might this all mean for the presidential election? Okay so today we have a great topic and no one better to talk about it than Molly Ball.
0:48.3	It is what we are calling the rematch.
0:50.8	Trump and Biden.
0:52.2	And Molly Ball, welcome.
0:54.0	Hi, thanks so much for having me.
0:56.0	I'm excited to talk about this.
0:58.0	So does the economy matter?
0:59.0	The answer is yes.
1:00.0	Next question.
1:02.0	Okay, the next question was inspired by, we went out actually with some of the speakers here
1:07.6	at this event and did karaoke last night.
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