I wish you would run for office again.

Al, you should get Roy Wood Jr for a podcast! He'd be a great one, for a change!

This was an excellent broadcast and should be required, listening for any voter, especially those who may vote for Trump.

It's less "your feelings aren't valid" to the voters, than "your Fox-sourced facts are WRONG". FACTS are more important than opinions .... Keep up the great work Al.

Thank you Al and Catherine 😊

Catherine is smart AND beautiful. Another fantastic guest for the best podcast of its genre in the world.

Catherine Rampelle is very bright and fully engaged, I'm grateful for both.

You and Cargerine combine so well…she’s so sharp and smart, but with a light sense of irony; you’re a wide open old softy who doesn’t miss a beat. Together, you make learning like play (though I’m not quite ready to take the exam). Thanks, and sure hope a few million people listen to this before November!

Don’t listen to Judy, Al. You don’t need to run for office again. You are precisely where you’re needed. Here, with us. Hi, Al❤❤❤

Catherine is outstanding! She always makes sense, and always speaks the truth . Thanks for all your great work , Catherine.

Thanks Al

Thank you

Inflation is a nasty booger. When they say inflation is coming down, some people think that means lower prices. That's not what it means ! Except for things like intrest rates on loans , it means the prices now are here to stay, there just not going up as fast. Alot if stuff is owned and produced by big giant companies with almost complete monopoly, food producers chief among them, driving prices higher. In the pandemic, greed took over.

Georgia passed a draconian anti-immigrant bill (HB 87) in 2011. Labor shortages caused massive losses for farmers as migrant workers avoided the state. Fortunately, the appeals court blocked most of it in 2013. Unfortunately, Georgia just passed HB 1105 that doubles down on immigrants.

Hello Mr. Franken, I think another Trump administration would be regrettable. I can't fathom why the GOP would accept him after failing on rule of law and moral grounds. Also the candidate isn't qualified.

Good news! The educated passionate young voters can save us from the doom of the donald!

Migrant workers help the farmers ✌💙

I'm a legal immigrant. At the end of the line for employment. god help you if you get hurt, no one else will.

You seem to have video of all of these interviews, it would be great if you were to upload them every week.

Thank you.

I DO read your good news, Catherine! I crave it.

Thanks for these Sen Franken!

This was really interesting! It would be great if you could have Robert Reich on soon to say more!

A 10% tariff would increase prices more than 10%. It would increase the cost to the middleman by 10%. Sellers in a 'free market' calculate profit by a factor of their own cost. So for example if a company operates on a 30% profit margin, a 10% tariff would increase the price on the self by 13%, not 10%.

We live 35 minutes from Silicon Valley: Lay offs are happening more often & it takes longer to find a job. It takes at least three months to find a job. Maybe more. It’s common to get laid off when companies run out of money, can’t find investors, can’t sell their products. Usually, a job will last two-three years. I know someone who was laid off because the company ran out of money. It took him three months to find a job. He worked hard for three months & the company let their team go. He’s been looking for almost three months. Usually, it takes about two months to find a job. The last time things were this bad was 2009. Also, the EDD is really bad. Three months late with unemployment checks. Screwing up registration with no explanation. Using bad software & not taking responsibility…Slow walking unemployment claims & pretending they don’t know what’s going on…

Money can't buy you Love; But everything else is negotiable. . . . , including the uneducated. "(Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's declaration of love for "the poorly educated" in his Nevada victory speech lit up social media on Wednesday, sparking a battle between those dumbfounded by the remark and those saying it had been taken out of context." February 24, 201611:59 AM CSTUpdated 8 years ago: "After winning the vote of the state's Republicans by a wide margin on Tuesday, the real estate billionaire rattled off a list of those groups who swept him to victory: "We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated." Thanks Al and Catherine.

It's actually perfectly valid to tell people "the numbers are bigger now, get over it". Prices will never go down in the long term unless there is deflation, which would be incredibly bad. Stuff is way more expensive now than it was in the 1950's, no one is complaining about not paying 5c for an ice cream cone.

Not being able to deduct what you paid to your state hurt alot of people.

To receive Social security of any sorts, you need to contribute 10 years worth of taxes in every pay check

So, everything is not changing at all? For a change.

When talking about the Trump tax cuts of 2017, they failed to note that everyone making under $75,000 a year got a tax INCREASE, over time. Tell the whole story.

I would add one thing , I've read that cooperate profits hit all time highs Post pandemic during the supply line snafu and a lot of them haven't come down ! Sories of companies making double or triple What they were befotehand!

I like her ops, Ed.

Inflation is an annual event. Just a matter of how high it goes As Miss Katherine has mentioned staying at same price is a winning outcome If a gallon of milk went over $4 after being the same then we could be concern Prices are staying as is due to higher wages n benefits paid to workers less of higher cost of raw materials!!!

10% tariffs makes things at least 50% more expensive.

I'll see you in the journalist & dissident camps. The scary Q is: What happens when djt figures out he can't deport us to anywhere?

How about instead of the whole impossible voting process we just pick a name out of a hat? Whoever qualifies to be on the ballot ... Then a captivating climax event where the winner is disclosed to a celebration of fireworks, pomp and pageantry as Hail to the Chief is simulcast on every cellphone in the land!

Feelings about the economy are bifurcated mostly based on age, most of the negative sentiments are due to structural challenges that have just made it harder for younger people to advance on the economic ladder

There is a developing golf cart culture. Wherein a golf cart is the only vehicle a household owns.

So Trump ships out 14 million immigrants. What stops em coming right back? People who are afraid in their home country, or desperately want the opportunity that America can offer and willing to work very hard for it will find a way. Perhaps we need a more humane way to guide these people to full citizenship

Restaurants are closing in our community…It doesn’t look good…

I think a lot of people are considering transitioning to an electric car, but they're being held back by the cost. Cheap Chinese options could be the answer they've been waiting for. I've heard Biden may initiate a 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars which would keep those vehicles out of reach.

Heavens to murgatroyd, she's always been so insanely beautiful!

Youd be in a camp al.

Just say " facts don't matter---everything is political. " We are doomed

Just listening to the intro made me turn this off because it is too depressing. Vote 💙💙💙

Do they make T.V here I don't think so.

Who makes more golf carts , China or Taiwan?

Happiness is low in the USA, and that equates to families with less babies. If only BBB had thrown people a "bone" and dealt with lackluster housing stocks, accelerating rent, wandering small businesses something; this has no direction, and is subject to health of global market during a time when the world is on fire.

Perhaps grocery prices aren't constantly going up but they are high, fluctuating or not they are "inflated". $60 a bag I call inflation. Economists point out & concentrate on trends, us food eaters look at the smaller box of cookies for more money & laugh. You say tomaato I say- "Eh, don't need cookies anyway" Doesn't matter, I wouldn't vote for the orange psycho if cookies were free for everybody. Or steak w/the crispy bits either. So you know I'm serious

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the depressing thing is how even the undoubted pinnacle of American excellence and decency as to hear in this one can't come up with points Americans should really be aware of, as e.g.: - Japanese central bank for the first time in decades has positive interest rates. Why? Because even Japan, far away from Ukraine and energy or food impacts of RuZZia's war, has a problem with inflation. Inflation isn't an American problem (besides the tariffs), but America does better as about everybody else! - European manufacturers of Solar panels move production from state funded premises in Eastern Germany to US - and with them hundreds of workplaces. Why? Because Biden's IRA gives them better opportunities there and a better market. - Germany did set its EV-Charging station goal according - among all Auto-countries - US!!! Petrol-US!!! Where a former president keeps ranting about EVs. Why? Because the last two years boosted by the IRA EV-carging density and hence EV comfort of use increased rapidly and far above German situation. And other that in Europe in US by far most of EVs are domestically produced. - Biden, in order to fight rising costs of living autumn 2022, sold American strategic oil reserves at far above USD 100. Now he re-purchases at around USD 80. May someone put that in perspective with the claims of democrats wasting money. From a perspective a bit out of the dust of the infighting within US the contrast between red delusion and blue competence gets much clearer and much more obvious to explain. WaPo Catherine Rampell should start with it!

74th!

CUT OUT THE SOOOS, YEAHS, AND VOICE INFLECTIONS

Trump will never get those tariffs through Congress.

Carnival barking on the side show that never leaves town; dip stick immigrants

People dont believe the economy is good, because goods and services are often unaffordable. Plus most Americans know once prices rise on something,,,, the prices dont go down on that item. Then you have monopolies means no competition , competition helps prices go down.

if you want to pay american workers more then that will be reflected in the cost .. by placing tariffs on the more cheaply made imports it levels the playing field so that those goods will cost that same as the made in america ones .. if your goal is to increase domestic production then the costs must be equivalent .. so tariffs on certain products are in place to foster & assist the transfer of jobs back to the US from where they went .. and biden did not lift them when he could have .. why ?? ask the econ writer ??

Hint of condescension re: ‘Americans have (skewed) vision of what inflation is.’ Perhaps she’s not referring to me.

this person is blaming the public for all the negative reporting because her 'cohort' only responds to clicks .. what chutzpah !!

You do real good videos. Really. But you never talk about how are boys are getting more and more behind. If you don't know that, I can help. There is more and more to talk about. Please Al, you are a smart guy you can get ahead of this before anyone.

I will not listen to any employee of Jeff Bezos' newspaper unless they have the guts to talk about him.

People don't believe it. I don't feel secure enough to buy a house or a car or to move for a job. Let's define recession by my terms.

I used to like Al, but honestly the genocide denial is atrocious. GENOCIDE DENIAL AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL ARE THE SAME.

This woman has zero insight. She is speaking from the position of a comfy sinecure, parsing about how Americans "feel" about the economy. People's feelings about their own economic security will not change until we start providing actual Universal Health Care, stop trying to destroy social security, and get rid of the billionaire class and their ability to control government.

ok now here's a 'change' .. yet another born on 3rd base ivy leaguer spouting opinions from the top 10% .. and based on what ??

ALSO THANKS AL MY HERO 🦸‍♂️ ON OUR GREAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S SUCCESS IN OUR COUNTRY 🇺🇸

BUT YEA TRULY MISSED YOU IN THE SENATE AL MY MINNESOTA HOME 🏠 TOWN HERO 🦸‍♂️ ESPECIALLY OUR GREAT HOME 🏠 TOWN SENATOR AMY KLOBOUCHAR HAS DONE AN IMPRESSIVE JOB FOR OUR STATE

ESPECIALLY AL MY HERO 🦸‍♂️ YOU WOULD’VE BEEN THE BEST VICE PRESIDENT FOR OUR GREAT LIBERAL HOME 🏠 TOWN SENATOR AMY KLOUBAR IF SHE WAS THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE

We live 35 minutes from Silicon Valley: Lay offs are happening more often & it takes longer to find a job. It takes at least three months to find a job. Maybe more. It’s common to get laid off when companies run out of money, can’t find investors, can’t sell their products. Usually, a job will last two-three years. I know someone who was laid off because the company ran out of money. It took him three months to find a job. He worked hard for three months & the company let their team go. He’s been looking for almost three months. Usually, it takes about two months to find a job. The last time things were this bad was 2009. Also, the EDD is really bad. Three months late with unemployment checks. Screwing up registration with no explanation. Using bad software & not taking responsibility…Slow walking unemployment claims & pretending they don’t know what’s going on… Gavin Newsom is the worst governor ever.