After a look at the day’s news, we welcomed Stephanie Kelton back to the show. Stephanie is a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University and former chief economist on the US Senate Budget Committee, working under Bernie Sanders.

Check out Stephanie’s op-ed for the LA Times from from Sept. 28, “Congress can give every American a pony (if it breeds enough ponies)“, and her op-ed for the NY Times from yesterday, “How We Think About the Deficit Is Mostly Wrong.”