The Pigou Club
Planet Money
NPR
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🗓️ 2 November 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | So there's this club about a tax. |
| 0:10.5 | I mean, it's sort of a club. |
| 0:12.2 | It's named after a debt economist named Arthur Cecil Pagoo. |
| 0:16.4 | It's the Pagoo Club. |
| 0:18.7 | The Pagoo Club has never had a meeting. |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:21.4 | The only thing it's had is it's had some blog posts where I welcomed people to the Pagoo Club. |
| 0:27.2 | This is the guy who created the club, Harvard economist Greg Mancue. |
| 0:31.0 | And what's really interesting about this club that is not really a club is that it's about |
| 0:35.2 | a tax that a surprisingly wide array of people think is a good idea. |
| 0:40.6 | Economists are famous for disagreeing with one another, but there's a certain areas we |
| 0:43.0 | do come in agreement. |
| 0:44.9 | This is one of them. |
| 0:45.9 | Greg was an advisor to President George W. Bush. |
| 0:48.9 | Greg's obviously in the club. |
| 0:50.4 | He's like the president of the club. |
| 0:52.4 | Also in the club, Paul Krugman, maybe the most famous liberal economist in America |
| 0:56.8 | today. |
| 0:57.8 | Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, club member, Al Gore, Rex Tillerson, former Exxon |
| 1:04.7 | mobile CEO and Donald Trump's former Secretary of State in the club. |
| 1:09.0 | So do people who are in this Pagoo Club of yours do they all know that they're in this |
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