The Trump Economy and the Cost of the Lockdown

Uncommon Knowledge

Hoover Institution

Politics, History, News:politics, Science, News

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Tyler Goodspeed, the former director of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and currently the Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, explains why he pursued a job in the Trump administration, gives his thoughts on the economic policies of the Biden administration, and describes what it was like to watch one of the strongest economies in the history of the world implode over the course of several weeks in the spring of 2020.

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0:00.0	A Trump economist, well, a former Trump economist.
0:05.0	What did the Trump administration truly accomplish
0:07.9	and what does the Biden administration think it's doing?
0:11.4	Tyler Goodspeed, on Uncommon Knowledge Now.
0:14.8	["Uncommon Knowledge"]
0:24.4	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:27.4	Tyler Goodspeed holds an undergraduate degree,
0:29.7	a master's degree in a doctorate, all from Harvard.
0:33.0	He studied at Cambridge and Oxford
0:35.0	and taught at King's College London
0:37.2	and has published three volumes on economic history.
0:40.7	In 2017, Dr. Goodspeed joined the Trump Administration's
0:44.0	Council of Economic Advisors
0:45.5	and during the final year of the administration,
0:47.9	he served as CEA Acting Chairman.
0:51.0	Dr. Goodspeed is now a fellow here
0:52.6	at the Hoover Institution.
0:53.8	Tyler, welcome.
0:55.4	Good evening, you're here.
0:56.7	It is the way of the pandemic that you and I
0:59.3	happen to be in the same building.
1:00.7	You're downstairs, and I'm upstairs.
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