Wizards of Finance
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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Politicians Are Not Technocratic Engineers of the Economy
If you buy the idea that politicians can actually be technocratic engineers of the economy, then we would expect politicians to do really unpopular things from time to time. But i don't know how anyone can look at congress and say that these are the people we trust to find to in the business cycle and even make the unpopular decisions. And so i think they're not having a very good moment right now. Madison cawthorn brags about not even hiring a policy staff, just hiring coms people, because that's all that matters. An m m t looks at this and says, let's give lawmakers more power over fine tuning the specifics of the business cycle. Setting aside the economic
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