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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

Saving the Economy with Saule Omarova

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Versant Media, News, Ms Now, Politics, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Society & Culture, Msnbc, Versant, Chris Hayes

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Are we doing enough to keep the economy alive through this crisis? So far, economic relief efforts have been messy, convoluted, and inequitably distributed. But while we talk about the steps taken to save the economy, we first need to know the structures in which that recovery originates. Who decides where the money goes, how are those decisions being made – and can these mechanisms be more effective? Not just in this current pandemic-induced economic contraction, but on a more permanent institutional level. How can we ensure our financial system is stable enough to weather these types of crises? After dedicating her academic career to answering these types of questions, law professor Saule Omarova joins to discuss her proposal for what that new type of institution can and should look like. RELATED READING Unsanitized: Why We Need a National Investment Authority by Saule Omarova

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But we need to create a permanent federal institution that would be charged with the task of

0:07.5

devising and implementing and financing a coherent strategy of sort of economic restructuring,

0:15.4

making sure that our U.S. economy is structured in a way that actually has a future.

0:21.2

And that we actually worked toward making our economy more resilient in the face of

0:27.1

the pandemic, the climate change, the whatever kind of shocks we experience, that we have

0:32.6

resources that we can mobilize and reapportion in the way we need it.

0:39.9

Hello and welcome to Wise is Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

0:48.5

Coming to you today, as always, every week from the quarantine closet where we produce

0:53.3

Wise is Happening at this point with the assistance of Kate Shaw.

0:58.1

I have to credit as a producer who's also anchor producing me on the show and helping

1:03.8

with the podcast as well.

1:05.9

That would be my wife and also a co-host of the Strix Root New Podcast, which you should

1:08.8

check out.

1:09.8

And of course, Tiffany Champion, remotely managing all of this.

1:13.7

We are, we've been doing, you know, sort of coronavirus-related podcast conversations, but

1:19.4

not sort of squarely repeating the same stuff we're doing on the show.

1:24.0

And today's another example of that.

1:25.2

And that I've been very curious about how we should be thinking about the relationship

1:29.6

between financial regulation, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Government, and businesses

1:35.0

amidst this period of insane economic distress and also completely unprecedented measures

1:41.9

to kind of keep the economy rescued.

1:44.0

And one of the problems that comes up to me here is sort of there's two issues.

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