What the Hell is Happening with the Economy?
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Are we sliding into a Great Depression, or just a quarantine-induced slump? What did the stimulus bill do, how big was it, and might it capsize the national debt? Colin Mortimer, director of the Neoliberal Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and host of The Neoliberal Podcast, along with Ben Ritz, Director of the PPI Center for Funding America's Future, join Heaton to explain what's happening with the economy and what the federal government has been doing to help or hinder it.
Season 2, Ep. 45
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage when other people are in partisan knife fights we're just trying to figure out |
| 0:14.9 | what the hell is going on and maybe becoming knife salesman I'm your host |
| 0:21.1 | Andrew Heaton and proud to report that against all odds I am still somehow wearing pants. |
| 0:27.0 | Just a few days ago Congress passed the largest spending bill in history. |
| 0:34.8 | So I wanted to ask, hey, what was that all about? |
| 0:39.5 | So I called up two educated gentlemen to talk to me about the economy. |
| 0:43.4 | What's been done to protect it from Hindenburging and what we might do to keep it from |
| 0:47.8 | hot air balloon popping. |
| 0:50.3 | We'll talk to them and find out in a hot minute, but first, today's program is brought to you by Uncle |
| 0:57.0 | Milton's Egg Past. |
| 0:59.0 | Ideal for quarantine or potlucks. |
| 1:02.0 | More from this wonderful sponsor after the interview. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's all underwritten by listeners of this program via Patreon. |
| 1:10.1 | Want to know something neat about that? None of them can hear this part of the show right now. |
| 1:16.1 | That's because there's a special RSS feed available only |
| 1:19.4 | to Patreon supporters, where I add weekly bonus episodes and I cut out this Patreon plug. |
| 1:24.0 | Since patrons of the program are already supporting it, there's no reason to irritate them by urging them to go to |
| 1:29.4 | Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton. They're already there. And by using deductive logic, I can infer |
| 1:35.0 | that you are not, and therefore I can irritate you as much as I want, and it won't hurt |
| 1:39.7 | the political orphanage's bank account at all. Here watch me drag out this commercial. |
| 1:47.9 | See if I wanted to I could just ramble on, |
| 1:50.4 | babbling and gibbering for 15 minutes at a stretch. |
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