Fact-checking the Presidential candidates’ economic plans
Listen 00:48:48Guests: Robert Farley, Jim Tankersley, Neil Irwin
From tax cuts to trade deals, this week the Presidential candidates laid out their respective economic plans at separate events in Detroit. In this hour of Radio Times, Marty will fact-check the speeches with ROBERT FARLEY, the deputy managing editor of FactCheck.org. She’ll also get analysis from JIM TANKERSLEY, economic policy correspondent at the Washington Post, and from NEIL IRWIN, a senior economics correspondent for The New York Times, where he writes for The Upshot, a Times site for analysis of politics and economics.
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