NIMBYism, which manifests as local regulatory barriers to new construction, is a major impediment to increasing housing supply.

“And the main bottleneck there being regulatory? I mean it's regulatory, but actually it's not regulatory um always. It's it's this term NIMBYism, not in my backyard.”

Robust federal regulation of business is essential for protecting the economy and ensuring workers have bargaining power.

“the great compression and interestingly enough those are the times that most americans who now talk about going back to the past look at and say let's go back to those great times well those were great times in part because the government regulated business so that workers actually had bargaining po”