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Episode 118: Household Debt: The Good, the Bad, and the Politicized

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The Importance of Awareness in Politics

James Carville: What we see no matter where we look with things like this is those who know better in this case, Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. It comes back to this tremendous hubris of the politician thinking that he or she knows better what's good for you than you do yourself. If they really wanted to make life as easy for people as they could, they would remove themselves from credit markets entirely,. He says. "Perhaps the only thing that's worse than someone who doesn't care about the poor ... is someone who cares enough to want to do something"

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