Oren Cass
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818 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Now you're just misusing terms left and right.
But this was sort of the MO of all of this.
And so if you figure, oh, a whole bunch of stuff will go to China, that's fine.
We'll get something else instead.
Maybe that could have worked out.
But it turns out that that was simply wrong.
And then the other core assumption under all of this economics that the economists hate talking about is that all they care about is consumption.
Like quite literally, the way that economics defines the good is having more stuff to consume.
And in fact, it defines work as the bad, right?
The ideal economic outcome- Explain this.
So in the formal economic models, it is for the sake of the consuming.
And so Jason Furman, who is chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors,
now teaches the intro level econ course at Harvard, gave a speech a year or two ago in Geneva at the WTO, World Trade Organization, convening, where he specifically noted that, you know, economists know that imports are the good thing that we get and exports are just the bad thing that we have to do to get more imports.
All right.
So the ideal – if you're kind of – they do what they call scoring policies, right?
We're going to run our model and say what's the best policy.
The ideal policy would be one where we get just everything we want to consume and don't have to do any work.
Yes.
So that's exactly right.
And this is the core of the point that I try to make and my organization, American Compass, focuses on is the idea that there are a lot of things we actually need markets to do.
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