Podcast of the RP on NPR

National Public Radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbook presents: Hard Times And Polarized Politics:

From Tom Ashbrook:

Why are American politics and American policy so stuck?  So stuck that what should be a dynamic economy is now seen as maybe the biggest threat to the world economy… because of Washington.

Economist Benjamin Friedman says we’re in a trap.  A bad economy is prompting bad policy from Washington, he says.  Good times, good policy.  Bad times, bad policy.  And we’re in a world of bad right now.

We need to break the cycle.  But how?

Guests

Benjamin Friedman, economist and professor of political economy at Harvard University. Author of “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.” You can read an excerpt here.

Jonathan Miller, co-founder of No Labels, a political non-profit made up of Democrats, Republicans and Independents, dedicated to problem solving. Former state treasurer of Kentucky. (@recoveringpol)