This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden
About this episode
Klein speaks with Felicia Wong, president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, about the transformation of American economic policy under Joe Biden. They discuss Biden's 'high care, low carbon' economic vision — using industrial policy, antitrust action and full-employment strategies not merely to correct markets but to actively shape them. Wong argues that the pandemic and climate change demand a bigger role for government investment, while contending that corporate concentration — exemplified by Amazon — has rigged economic rules in favor of big business. The conversation covers inflation, supply bottlenecks, the care economy, Federal Reserve appointments, financial regulation aimed at climate risk, and the inseparable links between economic structure, racial equity and democratic health.