Evan Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US · 27 Jul 2026
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So, you know, I guess I couldn't agree with you more that the
The dislocation ultimately has the most profound consequences for everyday people.
But that's the point, right?
Like trade is the lifeblood of growth.
This is how we feed ourselves, sustain ourselves, protect ourselves.
And so how do you have both at the same time?
How do you have more interaction?
enforcement, more fracturing as the geopolitics play out, and yet have more trade and more growth and more economic security?
And I think Altona is the answer to that question.
I've had a smile on my face all day, but yeah, it just hit the wire.
We do have, just to be cheeky with you for a moment, we do have our own AI agents and our AI systems on one side of the border talking to our own AI systems and agents on the other side of the border.
So, look, I do think, you know, it's not just kind of founder bullshit to say that the future is some version of agentic orchestration of the trade network.
Right.
Like like that that that's a sensible statement, whether or not there's policy volatility out there or not.
And the technological, you know.
revolution that, that enables that is, is, um, moving at pace.
So we're, we're surfing that wave.
We're applying these technologies.
We're in some cases inventing a few, but, um, but really, you know, in order to have global commerce, in order to have, you know, strawberries in the wintertime in the United States, um, you have to somehow, uh, solve this border complexity problem.
And, you know, your, your notion of, of, um, uh,
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