2024-07-25
18 分钟Last weekend we were all thrown for a loop when President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris for the nomination. Just like everyone else, we are trying to quickly wrap our heads around what it means now that Harris is almost certainly going to be the Democratic nominee for president. We expect to see the Harris campaign come out with some official policy proposals in the coming weeks and months. But for now, all we've got are clues, little breadcrumbs that she has dropped throughout her career that might lead us to a rough idea of what economic policies she might support. Today on the show, we're going to visit three key moments from Harris' political career that might give us an idea of how her economic agenda might look. First, the 2019 presidential primary debates, where she laid out her own economic policies. Next, a vote in her Senate years that shows where she might fall on future trade agreements. And finally, a fight with some of the country's biggest banks from her very first year as Attorney General of California. This episode was hosted by Keith Romer and Nick Fountain. It was produced by Emma Peaslee, edited by Jess Jiang with help from Meg Cramer, and fact checked by Sierra Juarez and Sofia Shchukina. Engineering by Kwesi Lee. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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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.
And I'm Keith Roemer.