What we are seeing right now from Elizabeth Warren is nothing short of brilliance

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46. Good post. Both Elizabeth and Hillary are major policy wonks,

and I love that in candidates.

Hillary's solutions ranged more broadly and could be big, but were designed to sound reassuringly "within normal," while Elizabeth's tend to be more iconoclastic. Two approaches, but both the kind of people you want in charge of putting a neglected nation in disarray in good order.

That reminds me, the city of Stockton, California has just started its own experiment in a universal basic income. $500/month to 130 residents for 18 months with no conditions to meet beyond allowing themselves to be studied. “We are in a moment where big ideas are important and politically people are ready for them,” Natalie Foster, co-chair of The Economic Security Project.

Interestingly, Warren hasn't stated a position on a UBI, while Hillary has said she regrets she didn't add a UBI to her agenda in 2016. But Warren's the one who has to get elected this time, and she's hardly the only candidate who apparently feels this subject has more weight than lift.