A Harris Economic Agenda emerges.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Benashore in for David Brancaccio.

Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris began to lay out an economic agenda last week including support for first-time

homebuyers, efforts to control price increases around groceries in particular, and as the Democratic

National Convention kicks off today, Democrats will need to carefully frame the economic

performance of the current administration while promising those

improvements. Julia Cornato is founder and president of macro policy

perspectives and a professor at the University of Texas Austin joins us good morning good morning

So the economy is obviously super important to a presidential election what is the current state of the economy as

actually experienced by most Americans right now?

Well the economy is still looking pretty decent the unemployment rate still low. The growth numbers are still

okay. They've slowed down a bit from last year, but people are still grappling with

that higher price level and that's I think some of the frustration we see in the

sentiment numbers and some of the issues that both candidates are alleging to try to address.

Right, so inflation is basically still a nerve there, a raw kind of a

nerve even if things are sort of stabilizing. And with that, what do economists think about

Vice President Kamala Harris has plan to ban price gouging?

The plan, as it is stated, is very general.

There is a bill in Congress.

It's quite specific to extreme moments where there has been a crisis or event and there is verifiable price gouging.

That proposal is fairly sensible, very narrow. The idea of

banning price gouging is a lot harder in a sort of broader sweep way, but I think the idea is obviously of

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