Obama Chief Economist Austan Goolsbee Explains the Unexplainable: What The Hell Trump is Doing On Trade

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🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Austan Goolsbee, former Obama chief economist, explains that "in a crisis, the president's credibility is all he has." So, someday soon, The New York Times headline may read, "World in Crisis, Turns Its Eyes to Donald Trump." And other scary stuff.

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0:31.0	Hi everybody, welcome to the Elf Rankin Podcast.
0:37.0	We got a good one today for a change.
0:41.0	Austin Goolsbee, who is an economist.
0:45.0	That's right, an economist.
0:48.0	Now I know you're thinking, oh, come on, Al.
0:51.0	I don't care about the economy.
0:54.0	Well, how about putting food on your family's table?
0:59.0	Yeah, I'm more interested in sports out.
1:02.0	Well then, you're listening to the wrong podcast.
1:04.0	I like sports too.
1:06.0	But this is important, the economy, and Austin Goolsbee is a professor here at the University
1:14.0	of Chicago, a very esteemed business school.
1:18.0	And this has amazing history, Milton Friedman, for example, was here.
1:26.0	And we don't like him on the show.
1:28.0	We just don't like him.
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