The Jackpod: In the host's seat
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the last Jackpod of 2023, On Point news analyst Jack Beatty answers listener questions ranging from political messaging to what binds us as a nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Sincere Foundation, which supports organizations that provide food security, housing stability, and safe spaces, |
| 0:09.0 | and envisions a future where everyone has the opportunity to celebrate life milestones. |
| 0:14.4 | Learn more at sincere.com. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this is the Jack POD where on point news analyst Jack Beaty helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello Magna. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, it's episode 15 Jack, and it's our last jackpot of 2023. |
| 0:40.0 | How time flies, I have to say. But today today's headline I'm actually going to give it |
| 0:45.3 | Jack okay so today's headline is in the host's seat it's your dreams come true you can sit right where I do every day and have this delightful and mind expanding conversation with Jack or short of that we asked you to send some questions. the questions that you really wanted Jack to answer. |
| 1:06.8 | So Jack, are you ready for this? |
| 1:08.8 | I'm ready. |
| 1:09.8 | Okay, I'm trying to think it may have a Frost-Nixon kind of feel, but we'll make it through. |
| 1:14.7 | I know I do this tease all the time, but first Jack, before we get to our |
| 1:20.2 | listener questions, I actually want to hear from from you I mean it has been quite a year |
| 1:25.2 | what are you some some of your reflections on 2023? |
| 1:28.8 | Well just on two events really or maybe three the economy I'm reading in Paul |
| 1:33.7 | kugman 2023 is ending is one of the best years on record for the American |
| 1:40.1 | economy he predicts that at the next Fed meeting, monthly statistics will show that inflation |
| 1:47.2 | is almost now within the 2% range that the Fed wanted to reach and in short we are making the soft landing that people |
| 1:58.6 | predicted we couldn't make without unemployment and keeping recession down. |
| 2:05.0 | Great news for the economy. |
| 2:07.0 | Not so great news for Joe Biden, |
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