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Okay, looks like its Kamala Harris presidential candidate.
Yeah, like the rest of the country, we are trying to very quickly make sense of what it means now that Kamala Harris is almost certainly going to be the democratic nominee for president, especially what it means in economic terms.
For the past four years, its been really hard to figure out what Harris strongly held beliefs were because, well, her publicly facing beliefs, they were her bosses.
Thats the whole point of being vice president.
You serve at the pleasure of the president.
Your official policy positions are, by and large, replaced by theirs.
But its not like Kamala Harris spent her entire career in the vice presidential policy vacuum.
No, before she was vp, she was a presidential candidate herself.
Before that, a senator.
Before that, attorney general of California.
Before that, an economics major and daughter of an economics professor.
And in at least some of those phases of her life, she took real stances on issues that are wonky enough for your favorite neighborhood economics show to want to dig into.
Hello, and welcome to planet money.
I'm Nick Fountain.
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