1581: The Redistribution Recession & You're Hired! Populist President by Casey Mulligan

Oct 27, 2020

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4 in 10 Americans want to buy a house because of the pandemic. Jason Hartman talks about what corporations are relocating their headquarters to places in which you have already invested. Vote with your feet.

Jason Hartman talks to Casey Mulligan, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, former chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration. He is also the author of the best-selling book The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy and the new book You're Hired!: Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President.

Key Takeaways:

[4:00] Los Angeles is planning to close properties for the budget gap.

[6:00] Gulfstream and Charles Schwab are both relocating.

[9:30] Move as much as you can to places that are friendly to your environment as a landlord. Vote with your feet.

Casey Mulligan

[14:00] The advantage of Twitter for Presidents is that they can bypass the press and speak directly to the people.

[18:45] Discussing the individual mandate.

[20:45] Can we classify Trump as a conservative?

[22:15] Let's discuss trade.

[26:35] Regulatory budget, something most countries have not done before.

[32:00] The polls aren't the same as voting.

[33:00] America will never be a socialist country.