Three Economic Issues that Could Shape the 2024 Elections

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

National elections are won and lost on the economy. Of course they are: the state of the economy affects individuals' job security, income levels, access to healthcare, education, and overall quality of life, so it's not surprising that voters evaluate candidates based on their proposed economic policies and their ability to address pressing economic challenges. As we kick off a big year for elections and the economy, we take time in this episode to discuss the three most important economic issues that could shape the 2024 elections, especially at the presidential level. These are big challenges our country currently faces, and big challenges ought to be met with big transformative ideas that will improve people’s lives and grow the economy from the middle out. Subscribe to Civic Ventures President Zach Silk’s Substack, The Pitch: civicventures.substack.com Dig into the biggest economic stories by visiting the Civic Ventures YouTube channel Who Gets What and Why: youtube.com/@WGWAW Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	The rising inequality and growing political instability that we see today are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory.
0:10.0	It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down.
0:15.5	Middle out economics is the answer.
0:17.8	Because Wall Street didn't build this country.
0:20.1	Great middle class built this country.
0:22.2	The more the middle class thrives, the better the economy from the middle out.
0:42.0	Welcome to the show.
0:44.0	Happy New Year, Paul, and welcome to 2024,
0:53.4	the scariest year since 2020.
0:57.6	Happy New Year to you, Goldie.
1:00.0	Is there anything you're looking forward to this year?
1:02.3	Yes, getting it over with.
1:04.1	I can only assume that you are talking about the presidential elections elections in November that's right as we
1:16.9	refer to in my house the end times well you know, that's certainly going to dominate the year and you know, I certainly do miss the golden days of presidential elections like back when I was covering the 2012 presidential election between
1:36.8	Mitt Romney and Barack Obama which seems so delightfully low stakes now but you know
1:42.1	That's right remember when you and I were
1:44.0	both Santuram delegates that's right that's right we were we were trying to keep Santoram in the
1:49.1	race a little longer so we we caucus him. We did not succeed but unfortunately no.
1:55.8	The good old days when Rick Santorum was on the ticket.
1:59.1	That's right. This this may explain why I still get Nicky Haley fundraising texts.
2:08.0	So yeah, we are entering an election year,
2:11.5	a presidential election year, and it's going to be quite the show. I believe, I don't know about you
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