Harris and Trump tout very different economic goals ahead of the DNC

Both Vice President Harris and Donald Trump have embraced expansions of government power to drive their economic policies. But they're doing so in vastly different areas... and with vastly different levels of detail. Senator Elizabeth Warren joins The Weekend to set the economic record straight.



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[TNBVB]

Country over Party!!! VOTE BLUE 💙 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸 Harris Walz 2024

[BRJrSamples]

Greedy corporations! I’m CPA I know their tricks.

[bullettube]

Eggs at the store I prefer are now back to their pre-gouging levels. Beef is still high but chicken and pork prices are now back to normal. Retailers have learned that when they increase prices the number of customers decrease. This is a lesson that has always existed but is always forgotten by retailers. Democrats tried to get Republicans to support hearings on price gouging but McCarthy said it wasn't necessary, a fact that must be pushed to voters this year!

[TruckSteel-]

Donold Trump's only goal is to stay out of prison. Kamala Harris has stated her goals and I support her 100%! Vote Blue! 💙

[pro-choicemom]

If a company is engaging in stock buybacks while increasing prices, well isn’t it obvious that they're price gouging!?

[michaelkornele]

Just tax the crap out of these massive corporate profits. There is no reason to over charge of its just going to go to taxes.

[raulescandon]

Anyone who relieves himself in a gold toilet cannot possibly have any idea what average Americans need and could not care less. But he wouldn't hesitate to lie about it to get what he wants.

[lucindadillon]

Kamala Harris cooks from scratch so she understands. There’s lots of YouTube footage on her cooking at home. Meanwhile, Trump eats fast-food and smears ketchup on walls 🥴😂😅

[citizenenak]

If Warren supports Harris's economic plans that's good news.

[chrisb]

Just me, he said "Cottage" not room...LOL, just me!

[babsjean]

We need to bring down the prices of nursing homes. They are charging 8k a month. That is crazy!! Please address this issue. 🙏🗳🌊🌊🌊💪🇺🇸

[conniegrant]

Very true, some eggs were $6.00 for 18 count regular carton, however, they have gone down to three and four dollars for a dozen which is still too high. Meat is outrageous. It’s time for America works for the PEOPLE not giant companies.

[stop_lying_to_me]

"We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know. It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly—very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous, if you’re into this, tremendous fumes, gases are spewing into the atmosphere." --Donald 'Rambling narcissist' Trump

[IsaDesOsiers]

Again, although this is a good interview, it seems disingenuous to ask Sen. Warren to explain an excellent plan to rein in mega-corporation price gouging, then ask her to explain why tuition and university in total has become to drastically expensive. Those two things are apples and oranges, and they are complex. The history behind Reagan attacking and defunding the state university systems is legend, that is where this began as concerns universities. As to why the big Ivy League private universities, with massive endowments, are gouging is a whole different discussion as well. The defunding of our public school system and underpaying teachers is another. All are interconnected in some ways, of course, everything is. But gosh, I wish we could see smarter interviews. What is laudable here by Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez let Sen. Warren answer pretty fully, that was very interesting, it was informative reporting. Thank you!

[zomotekk]

Truml only will give TAX CUTS TO RICH 🤣 broski will do anything to stay out of jail 😭 god i wish harris wins for all my GAZA friends 😭💙

[tonie]

Price gouging is being done on every from medical cost, auto insurance and utilities to name a few.

[prajnachan]

"We just had a pandemic."
"There have just been wildfires."
"People are struggling."
"Let's raise prices and really stick it to them."

[ch]

Elizabeth Warren is very good at explaining complex topics in a way that's clear and easy to understand.

[otterwench]

For those of you watching the Harris and Frump speeches, unlike what people on MSNBC and other outlets are saying, clamping down on price gouging does not equate to government enacting price controls. (the price controls is like what happened with rationing during WW2) It is an FTC-type issue. For example, when eggs were in short supply, prices went way up. When eggs came back to becoming more readily available, some stores kept their prices high. That is price gouging. There can be a mechanism put into place where if the percentage of profit on necessities (like food and toilet paper, for example, or anything that can be purchased via the SNAP program) is still priced to give the seller more than a very high (TBD by experts) percentage of profit, government fines can be levied.
That is NOT the same as the government setting prices.
What it will do is help those living in food deserts, where often the only source of milk or bread is from a gas station, where prices are set astronomically higher because the only other choice for people without cars in the neighborhood is take (often ridiculously inconvenient and sporadic) public transportation, to visit a big store where prices are set based on standard competition among other nearby stores.

[bluto]

Post all the amounts the raised items to so we can stop using those companies