Swamp Notes LIVE: A look back at the economy and the election
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
With the election just over a week away, Swamp Notes visited the University of Michigan to recap the final FT-Michigan Ross poll. Swamp Notes host Sonja Hutson is joined by the FT’s US managing editor Peter Spiegel, and Erik Gordon and Francine Lafontaine of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business to examine the poll results and explain why the economy remains top-of-mind for voters.
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| 0:12.0 | Hey there, this is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing, where we talk |
| 0:18.1 | about all of the things happening in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. I'm Sonia Hudson. the Michigan Ross School of Business. The FT has been doing a monthly poll with |
| 0:34.3 | Michigan Ross this year on how American voters are thinking about the |
| 0:38.3 | economy. We had a great conversation about how that's changed over time and how it might ultimately |
| 0:44.8 | affect the election, which I'm sure I don't have to remind you is somehow already |
| 0:49.6 | next Tuesday. Anyway, let's get into it. |
| 0:55.0 | Good afternoon, everyone. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Sharon Matusik, the Dean of the Michigan Ross School of Business. |
| 1:03.2 | Together, we created the F.T. Michigan Ross Poll, |
| 1:06.7 | which surveys 1,000 registered voters |
| 1:08.9 | from a variety of political and socioeconomic backgrounds. I want to thank the group of Michigan Ross |
| 1:13.9 | professors who collaborated with the Financial Times in creating this monthly |
| 1:17.4 | poll. Leading that group has been Eric Gordon who joins us for today's panel |
| 1:22.2 | discussion. Eric is the area chair |
| 1:24.3 | for entrepreneurial studies here at Ross and an expert on entrepreneurship, venture |
| 1:28.7 | capital, private equity, and corporate governance among other topics. |
| 1:33.4 | Also from the Ross faculty is Francine La Fontaine. |
| 1:37.3 | Francine is a highly accomplished professor of business economics, |
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