Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is Douglas Holtz Eekin.

He is the president of the American Action Forum. He's also a PhD economist who previously served as director of the Congressional Budget

Office and was chief economic policy advisor to John McCain's 2008 presidential

campaign.

For a change we talk economics in the state of the economy,

as well as what is going on internationally, particularly in Argentina, and what might

occur to the US economy if China and Taiwan ever be engaged in war.

So we get into a lot of different economic topics.

I think you'll find this podcast both different than our usual fair over the last several months and also very

intriguing. You may while you're listening here sometimes the audio changed

slightly. We had a couple technical difficulties recording this. I don't think it

will harm your listening

experience very much but you might notice it so I just want to point it out.

So without further ado I give you Dr. Douglas Holtz Eke. Douglas Holtzikin, thank you for joining the Dispatch Podcast.

My pleasure, thank you.

Well, we haven't talked about economics on the Dispatch podcast in some time so I wanted to

bring in an economist here to talk about a what's probably a pretty rather

important subject which is the economy so I want to begin with this Harris

poll that was released earlier this week we're recording the economy is

is shrinking.

That was released earlier this week.

We're recording on Thursday.

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