40 years later, is this the end of Reaganomics? - a podcast by Marketplace

It’s been 40 years since President Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” Now we’re in a new crisis, with plenty of data on the “trickle-up” consequences of trickle-down economics and a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. Reagan had “Morning in America,” Joe Biden has “Infrastructure Week.” On today’s show, we’ll talk with political economist Mark Blyth about how Reaganomics was supposed to work, its ripple effects on Democrats and whether the era of “the era of big government is over” is … over.

Here are links to everything we talked about on the show today:

• “Bidenomics beats Reaganomics and I should know – I saw Clintonomics fail” from previous Marketplace contributor Robert Reich in the Guardian


• “2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died” by Paul Krugman in The New York Times


• “Biden is planning for a Great Society 2.0” by James Hohmann in the Washington Post


• “JPMorgan, Salesforce Join Growing List of Firms Dumping Office Space” from The Wall Street Journal


• “US 10-year Treasury yield hits highest level since January last year” from Financial Times


• “PayPal launches crypto checkout service” from Reuters


• “Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency” also from Reuters


• “How America’s ‘First Female Cryptanalyst’ Cracked the Code of Nazi Spies in World War II—and Never Lived to See the Credit” from Time magazine


• Finally, listen to Molly’s interview with Make Me Smart Question answerer Aniyia Williams.

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