Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2020-2024: on Budget & Economy

Nikki Haley: Resigned from Boeing directorship; opposed government aid

Vivek Ramaswamy: Unleash the animal inside the heart of the American economy

Doug Burgum: Balanced the budget every year and passed record tax cuts

His second minute-long ad titled "Change" touts Burgum as a "new leader for a changing economy." It  highlights his background growing up in rural North Dakota, using his inherited farmland to invest the seed capital for Great Plains Software. He sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001, and became governor of his home state in 2016.

"As governor, we took North Dakota from billions in the hole to a surplus," Burgum said. "We balanced the budget every year and passed record tax cuts, again, working together. Think what we could do with America."

Tim Walz: Bipartisan compromise $48B budget to address 2017 crises

Walz secured a two-year, $48 billion budget deal precisely how he said he would: by getting everyone to compromise. Walz gave up on the ten-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike he had campaigned on to pay for transportation improvements, which Republicans had bitterly opposed. Meanwhile, Republicans agreed to keep in place (albeit at a slightly lower rate) what they derided as the "sick tax"--a levy on health care providers that funded the state's Medicaid program and MinnesotaCare, its health insurance program for the working poor.

Kamala Harris: Lower cost plan: housing; groceries; medical; and taxes

But just because her strategy is understandable does not make it sensible. Her prescriptions risk taking America further down the road of self-defeating economic policies. Ms Harris's cost-of-living plan may open a new phase in the worrying odyssey. She takes aim at four categories of costs: housing; groceries; medical; and taxes. Although some of her ideas are good and helpful, many more would end up weighing on growth and driving up prices--the exact opposite of their intended effect.

Kamala Harris: FactCheck: no evidence for pandemic price-gouging

Although Ms Harris's promise to crack down on unfair mergers and acquisitions in the food industry that lead to less competition and higher prices is unobjectionable, in reality it is little more than a restatement of America's existing anti-monopoly policy. The Federal Trade Commission is, for instance, currently embroiled in a legal battle to block the biggest supermarket merger in American history.

Donald Trump: Federal Reserve chair flips a coin on interest rates

TRUMP: It depends on the jobs. Look, I think it's the greatest job in government. You show up to the office once a month and you say, "let's see, flip a coin." And everybody talks about you like you're a god. "Oh, what will he do?" I mean, before, the guy used to walk into my office. He was like begging.

Q: You talked about removing him once.

TRUMP: I did because he was keeping the rates too high. And I was right.