Gene Sperling
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Feb
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One of the things that my simple hot take has always been, we had two choices with COVID.
We either had inflation or recession.
And if we didn't throw money, if we had handled COVID the way we'd handled the housing crisis, which is to be fiscally a bit small C conservative about how much money we threw at the issue.
We probably prevent inflation, but we might have had a massive recession.
The less I have always felt as if that COVID coming just within a decade of the great recession sort of got everybody thinking, hey, we better, if we're not sure, throw a little bit more money at it.
Let's not underfund, let's overfund.
Do you think 50 years from now, that's how we'll look at those two events?
And it's sort of when it comes to government intervention, the economic crisis, the great recession will always be seen as an example of government not doing enough.
And COVID we'll be seeing as an example of when government does a little too much.
I know I'm being very, I'm asking for a black and white hot take on something that could be incredibly nuanced, but generally speaking.
I just think you couldn't get it, couldn't get- Well, politically, look, by the way, in fairness, politically, I mean, you couldn't cross that number.
It had to be under a trophy.
And so I'm not saying-
excited when interest rates got from went from double digits to single digits so i had at least remembered that era and of the era of the late 70s and early 80s and it did i mean we were one of those working-class families that we couldn't afford a house until interest rates finally got to um i think it was just under nine percent and we could finally get into a house and
I mean, what the 70s taught me, and especially now looking in hindsight, is that inflation is nonpartisan.
or inflation is bipartisan, however you wanna say it in this respect.
Inflation took down three presidents, right?
Richard Nixon loses support among Republican.
People always forget this.
If the economy's better, Nixon fights harder, and Republicans probably fight on his behalf.
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