Gary Gensler
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
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In politics, you have to always find consensus.
There's a hierarchy that messaging helps drive the political consensus and the policy analysis is part of it, but it's kind of third.
Whereas in academia, it's in reverse, the analysis seems to come.
first and I'm constantly saying, well, what about the political economy?
What about can you get the consensus to move that forward?
Importantly, what's your message that you can boil down to six seconds?
The beauty of the political world is the American public gets to decide.
If you can't describe something to the American public with a narrative arc, with a clean why does it matter to me at my kitchen table?
Then it's hard to break through.
An example is our unsustainable debt right now.
The United States has gotten very comfortable and relaxed in this idea that every year we run federal budget deficits, running around 6% of our gross domestic product.
When you add up all of that debt and deficits, we're now at about 100% of our gross domestic product, to put it in dollars.
$31 trillion.
And that's going to keep growing.
That's something we haven't had the political consensus, the political will to address.
And I think we lost something.
Our first 200 or so years, the capital markets and the political markets were aligned where we couldn't borrow too much.
And then something shifted about 40, 50 years ago.
the broad bond markets of the world said, well, no, we'll keep buying these dollar assets and keep basically supporting the US government twin deficits.
We have trade deficits and we have the federal government deficits.
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