Justin Wolfers

There's no Wall Street Journal headline.

But it turns out economic research tells us that's the stuff that matters.

Mate, I'll go by Justin.

Good to see you, Ben.

Justin, great to see you.

Unless you want to go by Professor, how do I pronounce it?

Micellus.

What an amazing 11 years the last week has been.

So I think we might've begun the week with some of the fallout from Trump threatening to jail the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

We went to the Supreme Court and we saw Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.

We are still waiting for the Supreme Court to come down on deciding whether the tariffs are constitutional or not.

And so in the final couple of minutes,

while they're waiting to find out if they're constitutional, Trump threatens eight European nations with tariffs of 10% rising to 25% if they don't hand over an independent territory.

Trump flies to Davos and gives a

As far as I can tell, his plane breaks down first.

He gives a campaign rally speech, which is rather odd because I don't think he's meant to run for election again.

He's certainly not running for anything in Switzerland.

It was a long, rambling, incoherent speech, which, if anything, just shows disrespect to our allies, to the businesses there, to the leaders that are there.

He arrives and says, I'm not going to bomb Greenland.

not bombing Greenland is enough to cause markets to rise and sentiment to