How Trump Pushed Millennials Out of the Republican Party

Complete honesty: I'm not an economist and I don't know enough to have an opinion on whether Sanders' policies would increase velocity of money.

I have some (uninformed) doubts, which I can share, but I'm not claiming to know what I'm talking about.

The gist of what Edelman is saying (as I understand it- it's hard to know exactly what he has in mind because it's a short clip) is that (in addition to stimulus measures) we need more banking regulation to cause banks to extend more loans to consumers and businesses.

The problem is that in the wake of the financial crisis, the government has pursued regulatory measures that make lending more difficult, and I doubt there is political appetite for easing up in that respect. Maybe Edelman has in mind stricter regulations on "speculation" which forces banks to look more to lending as an alternative? I don't know. Further, I thought Sanders wanted to keep the large banks out of consumer banking?

Basically, I don't know what Edelman is seeing in Sanders' proposals that will accomplish what he's talking about.

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