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Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 14FEB22
Generic Polling, Afghanistan, Hugs, Economic News & Numbers w/Guest Jericho Hill
Heard Tell for February 14th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need about the most popular, best polling candidate of each and every election cycle, the “generic” party poll. We get into why this usually helpful tool is misused in the news cycle, not to properly applied the polls about “generic” Democrats and Republics, and how to better utilize this polling mainstay in a contentious election year. Also, we get into reporting on the “after action” reports on the Biden Administration’s conduct during the Afghanistan withdraw, why/how decisions made affected the chaos of the US’s pull out, and that some of the obviously bad calls at the time look even worse in hindsight. Guest Jericho Hill returns to once again talk economic numbers and headlines, this time discussion the CPI reports and what that means regarding employment numbers, inflation, and the state of the economy. Jericho breaks down how this is one of the most interesting, unique, and complicated economic times we’ve ever seen, how to discern all the numbers and news narratives being thrown around, and helps explain the seemingly contradictory economic numbers. Plus, we discuss affordable housing, equity, lending, and lessons from…