Conrad Putzier
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146 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 3d ago
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High interest rates have also hurt hiring.
They're weighing on companies.
They make it more expensive to run your business.
And then on top of that, you have all this economic uncertainty.
No one really knows where the economy is heading.
No one still really knows where tariffs are going to end up and what they mean.
And so a lot of companies are just sitting tight.
This decline in dynamism has real economic consequences.
The really obvious one is that it creates this divide between winners and losers, between the people who have a job, between the people who have a house, and between the people who don't have a job and can't find one and don't have a house and can't afford to buy one because mortgage rates are incredibly high.
And the risk there is that this divide persists and becomes stronger.
And there's some research that suggests that if people don't get a good job after graduating from college pretty quickly, they often fall behind for good.
And even 10 years later, they still won't recover fully economically from falling behind so soon.
And then just from a pure economic productivity standpoint, it's a really big deal.
Because in a successful economy, you want everyone to be where their talents are best used.
So think of it from a worker's perspective.
You're in a city where there aren't many good jobs and you could maybe move to San Francisco where there's lots of job openings, for example.
But if you can't do that for a number of reasons, because, for example, the housing there is so expensive and you can't sell your own house, that means you can't take better jobs and you make less money and you spend less money and that hurts the economy.
And the same from a company's perspective.
If you have a bunch of job openings, but you can't get people to actually move to your location, that means you produce less and you make less money.
And in turn, you know, you pay less in taxes and you hire fewer people.
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