Oren Cass

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The Wealth of Wall Street with Oren Cass · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

Or did they even care?

Oh, I think they did for the most part.

My experience having been in the political world for a while is like, yeah, there are outright bad actors.

But by and large, if you're an economist, if you're even someone running for office in most cases, if you want to work in government,

You may have convinced yourself of this in some way, in various ways.

But at the end of the day, you are trying to do good things.

And so a lot of folks really deeply believed – and let's remember on the – I mean globalization, financialization, this was as much Clinton as it was Bush.

It was an entirely sort of bipartisan consensus.

And so these folks really – they really did believe it.

Yeah, I think that's a good description of the eras.

I would think about it more as a pendulum swinging though.

I think it's helpful to in general think about what happens in our politics, right?

The New Deal emerges in response to the Great Depression and what had been a very minimalist government that clearly was not serving people's needs at that point.

And so I think with FDR, you get this real swing of the pendulum all the way from –

You know, we're much too far to one side.

You come to, OK, we got to fix this and then swing through to an overcorrection where by the kind of great society, you know, LBJ, great society programs of the 60s.

You know, I think certainly if you talk about sort of what parts of the welfare state as it's been constructed that we would say like, yeah, that was really good versus that's not so good.

There's definitely a very different view of New Deal type, you know, social insurance, right?

Basic social security, right?

Fair labor standards.

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