David Brancaccio
speaker
2,652 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know.
We're going to keep working on it.
It's not secretary of the future.
It's probably future effects correspondent or something like that.
Yeah.
Do we have to have a full collapse of the system?
And, you know, it's like Cormac McCarthy novel The Road to get people to say we should have had a V8 and had a secretary of the future.
You know, do you have faith in humanity or not?
You asked earlier, you know, what gives you optimism?
And and I would have had a similar answer.
It's social capital like this.
On a good Sunday where it's beautiful outside and you have mountains and oceans beckoning, you're here to chew on some topics about the economy.
That gives me some hope.
I also know that pendulums swing.
I also talk to a lot of younger adults in my line of work, and also we have three younger adults who are offspring.
And they are not uniformly upbeat at all times about the state of the world.
But they also are preparing themselves for a time when the time horizon is longer than it seems to be now.
And our job isn't to tell you what the choices should be.
Our job...
is to show you the range of policy possibilities, the ways people are thinking about this.
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