The economic challenges Biden faces (with Idrees Kahloon)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Idrees Kahloon from The Economist joins us for inauguration week to assess the daunting economic challenges that the Biden-Harris administration will face the second they take office. Idrees Kahloon is the Washington correspondent for The Economist. He covers US policy, poverty, and COVID-19 stimulus packages. Twitter: @imkahloon Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics Further reading: President Joe Biden will face two extraordinary economic challenges: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/11/14/president-joe-biden-will-face-two-extraordinary-economic-challenges Joe Biden is taking office amid a poverty crisis: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21582005/joe-biden-poverty-covid Here’s a look at the economy Biden will inherit next month: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/17/us/joe-biden-trump#heres-a-look-at-the-economy-biden-will-inherit-next-month Joe Biden’s Four-Year Plan: https://prospect.org/day-one-agenda/joe-bidens-four-year-plan/ The three progressive policies voters seem to love: https://slate.com/business/2020/11/progressives-election-minimum-wage-marijuana-medicaid.amp Top charts of 2020: https://www.epi.org/publication/top-charts-of-2020-the-economic-fallout-of-covid-19/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The incoming Biden administration is really going to be inheriting some massive challenges.
0:05.0	The immediate challenge that Biden faces, of course, is all tied to the COVID-19 epidemic and its economic fallout. He's going to have to get right to work.
0:15.0	Obviously, Democrats have a lot of challenges, but I think the biggest, the central challenge
0:20.0	is to prove to the majority of citizens that they can change this country economically for the better.
0:31.6	From the home offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics,
0:38.0	with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
0:43.0	I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:48.0	I'm Jessen Farrell and I'm Senior Vice President at Civic Ventures. I'm Jessin Farrell and I'm Senior Vice President at Civic Ventures and a former state legislator.
0:56.3	So Jessin, hopefully tomorrow an inauguration day.
1:03.3	Yeah, we're hoping.
1:05.0	Fingers cross that the United States of America continues to exist till tomorrow and beyond.
1:12.6	But the Biden administration will take over
1:15.0	from the Trump administration and get underway.
1:18.6	And we've been talking about what they should do
1:21.5	and we've including many past podcast podcast guests who are now part of that administration.
1:26.5	Yep, and on Friday we'll release a bonus episode compiling
1:29.7	some of our best moments with them.
1:31.2	So look out for that.
1:32.4	And so today we're going to interview a very smart reporter,
1:36.9	Idris Caloon, who is the Washington correspondent for the economist, and he covers U.S. policy, poverty, and other the should you know, put it, conventional institution views what the Biden
1:54.9	administration should be doing and it'll be a very interesting conversation.
1:58.3	Yeah and I think you know the thing that I'm interested in is how the voice of consensus economics, which the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Civic Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Civic Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.