Category: Politics
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 26
A quick note: This episode was recorded on October 31, 2020, before Election Day or any of the subsequent events surrounding the results or the transition process. Like many Americans in the run up to the presidential election, we had politics on the brain, and our state of mind is reflected in this episode. After…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 17: Shut ‘Em Down
On December 22, 2018, the US government entered what was to become the longest shutdown in the country’s history, when the President refused to sign off on a Congressional budget that didn’t include a requested $5 billion in funding for a border wall. The government temporarily reopened 35 days later, but not before damaging…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 13: The Economics of Immigration
The human consequences of the current administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy have been inescapable during this summer’s news cycle. Each day seems to bring with it new stories of parents separated from children, inhumane conditions in detention centers, and the stripping away of previously installed protections for asylum seekers and early childhood arrivals in the United…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 11: Trade Talks
The last two weeks have been a bit of an economic whirlwind, with the US imposing steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada, the EU, and Mexico, a move that has driven US-Canadian relations in particular to a new low as Canada imposed its own tariffs on American goods. Just yesterday, the US launched another salvo…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 7: We were wrong about tax reform
In today’s episode, your hosts issue a joint mea culpa…about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In our most recent episode on tax reform, we expressed doubt that the bill would become law, largely because of how far apart the House and Senate bills seemed to be. You can imagine our surprise when Congress…