Good evening and welcome to the Hudson Institute policy center. Im john walters, the chief operating officer and and i wod like to welcome our audience here at our pennsylvania avenue headquarters, and our cspan audience to our first ever podcast keeping that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast of the Second Season of the realignment, hosted by henson media fellow marshall kosloff. We are proud of the realignment here at hudson, podcast launched last year and i recommend a special for those you who havent been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh hawley, mike micah gallagher, Michael Durrant and others, but its an excellent program, partly because of the two people put it together and the ability to bring up topics and to move the argument alone. We couldnt be prouder of the work they have done. I want to thank them for that, and were happy to launch this Years
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Exceptionally broad and clear overview of the state of economic life. The actual conditions we face how those relate to those dark stories that we hear in our politics to the conditions americans havens experienced. Its fair to say that things are much better than politics and the critics of the market economy would suggest that we face risks but that mood are the most important it is a controversial thesis as a conservative i am resistant and being told everything is fine. But it is a very powerful argueof thesis. A thoroughly supported thesis in the book so to respond to the argument is one of the smartest social analyst and policy thinkers in washington. He is the chair and senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution director on the future of the middle class author of important how the american middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust and what to do about it. The format will be very simple we have an overview and then we will offer a response i will help
Audience to the firstever podcast taping and mark the Second Season of the premier of the podcast of the Second Season of the realignment by the hudson media fellows. We are proud of the realignment of hudson with the podcast launched last year and i recommend especially for those of you that have been following it that you take a look at the efforts from last year. Mike pompeo, josh holly, mike gallagher, mike duran and others its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be prouder of the work theyve done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this years program. Michael is a professor at the lyndon b. Johnson school of Public Affairs at the university of texas. Saving democracy for the managerial elite. The book that you could purchase at the back thats just published today so we are here at the launch. Congratulations on that. Theres a direct line between the class fo
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