15 July 2024. Economic performance has been the most important factor in the US presidential election in polls for months. The Biden administration is relying on Bidenomics via the Build Back Better infrastructure programme. The Republicans are building on Trump’s “America First” stance with nationalist tones and calls for an “anti-corporate elite policy” that breaks with the GOP legacy of a libertarian, unregulated market economy. The two approaches have more in common than both parties admit, also with regard to the hard line towards China.
Host Tobias Endler discusses with three experts how much the economic situation is affecting the US election campaign. What factors play a role, who do voters trust to have the greatest economic expertise? Do international trade relations also play a role when casting a vote? Or does the money in their own wallet at the end of the month play the decisive role? And how important are questions of justice and fairness (still) to people: is the “pursuit of happiness” just a hollow phrase…?
Julia Kastein has worked as a freelance journalist in Washington, was a prime-time presenter at MDR, reported for ARD from the capital city studio in Berlin and for the Austrian daily newspaper “Die Presse” as a correspondent from London. Julia Kastein has been a correspondent in the ARD Washington studio since July 2019.
Julia Friedlander is Managing Director of Atlantik-Brücke. Friedlander was a C. Boyden Gray Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. She is an expert on transatlantic economic relations, EU economic policy and financial regulation and sanctions. Julia Friedlander previously worked as an advisor in the US Treasury Department and the White House.
Dr Roland Rohde worked for GTAI (Germany Trade and Invest) in Asia for 20 years. His focus there was on Hong Kong, South and West China. He relocated to Washington in the summer of 2023. He specialises in trade and technology conflicts in the USA and China.
In German language
Location: Livestream online or public screening in the d.a.i. hall
Admission free
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In cooperation with the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, Reinhold-Maier-Stiftung, Radio Micro-Europa, Tübingen campus magazine Kupferblau, Freies Radio Wüste Welle, University of Tübingen
