February 17, 2023· 54 min

Brian Deese on the Legislative Legacy of President Biden's First Two Years

Brian Deese

Orality

Model

67%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(2,024 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(1,145 words)

M:29%

GuestBrian Deese(5,546 words)

M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic25%

literally, completely, extremely

Engagement64%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, like

Repetition100%

know (87x), think (65x), like (59x)

Parallelism84%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And, of course, there was the ..., So Chips Act....

Sound Patterns46%

45 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases8%

at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging6%

maybe, rather, perhaps

Passive Voice10%

been passed, was announced, been characterized

Abstract Nouns22%

investment, recommendation, administration

Subordination5%

because, therefore, since

Sentence Length59%

Avg: 19.9 words/sentence

Word Complexity51%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style36%

620 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style92%

literally, completely, extremely

Description

President Biden came into office with an incredibly slim legislative majority. And yet despite just 50 Democratic seats in the Senate, the first two years of Biden's Presidency saw the passage of some extremely ambitious laws. The potential exists for the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act to reshape the economy in ways that we haven't seen in a long time. Brian Deese has been the head of the National Economic Council these last two years, and was thus directly involved in the passage and shaping of these laws. So what will they accomplish, and how will they ultimately be judged. We spoke to Brian in his final week in the NEC role about this new era of "industrial strategy", and what he learned during this two-year stint. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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