Putting the Con in Economics

The Gist

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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President Trump's top economics adviser is Kevin Hassett, a guy who has made some very bad calls—most notably, his assertion that the Bush tax cuts would make the U.S. economy recession-proof. New Yorker writer Adam Davidson takes us to economics school and parses some of Hassett's years old gobbledygook. In the Spiel, holding Bill Clinton's accusers to today's standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following show has a lot of explicit content.
0:03.1	I'm sure you'll like it because of that.
0:04.9	It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2017, from Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.
0:14.5	You know, 11, 14, 17 is evenly spaced out.
0:17.4	The last evenly spaced out date was, I believe, 9, 13, 17, and then before that 7, 12,
0:24.1	17.
0:25.3	And the next, totally evenly spaced out date is going to be 210, 18.
0:31.3	I never, I never refund the date.
0:32.7	Maybe this could be a new thing in the GIST.
0:34.5	Anyway, Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke,
0:37.5	is a former Navy SEAL who wrote a horse to his first day in the job.
0:42.3	Seems cool, except when you realize that Roy Moore wrote a horse to vote,
0:47.0	and that two Navy SEALs are accused of killing a Green Bray,
0:49.4	who knew about their money laundering scheme.
0:51.3	Anyway, Ryan Zinke is allowing employees to bring their dogs to work.
0:57.1	Isn't that nice?
0:58.2	And he installed in the cafeteria of the Interior Department a video game.
1:03.7	Yeah, it's a hunting video game.
1:06.7	But you know what?
1:08.0	The Huffington Post, a bunch of weak-need urban baby faces,
1:11.8	bemoans the big game hunter video game.
1:15.2	But when you think about it, the Secretary of Interior's job is to maintain hunting lands.
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