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#398 w/Allison Schrager - "The Horrible, No Good Economy: A Primer”

The Fifth Column

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The Debt Ceiling Negotiations and Occupy Wall Street

It was mentioned in every state of the union address between 1997 and 2013 that we can no longer afford our entitlement situation going forward. That just vanished from view. And it wasn't Trump that made it vanish. It was basically 2014. After all of the debt ceiling negotiations after that was all of the politics in America, the Tea Party. So with Occupy Wall Street, you know, we talked about on the, on the second Sunday members only episode that paying subscribers have full access to. Allison Traeger: I need an economist to tell me how to navigate these very choppy waters but anytime is fun.

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