Kyle Risdahl

Last thing, Travis, and then I'll let you go because I know you have all kinds of people clamoring for your attention.

What is the economic boom vibe in Phoenix now?

When we were there, it was construction and go, go, go.

And, you know, there's some challenges with the Phoenix area, right?

It's a desert.

It's, you know, getting crowded, all of those things.

What's the vibe?

Travis Laird is at the Arizona Pipe Trades Apprenticeship, UA 469 Plumbers and Pipefitters out in Phoenix.

Travis, thanks a lot for your time.

It's good to talk to you again.

We started the show with macro.

Thank you, Chair Powell and the gang.

But as regular listeners know, micro is where the economic wisdom really lies.

Annie Lang Hartman runs Wild Letty up in Leelanau County, Michigan, where she sells stationery and gifts and sundries.

She sent us this dispatch.

Ah, the ever-changing American consumer.

Annie Lang Hartman, Wild Letty, Leelanau County, Michigan.

This final note on the way out today, which comes a couple of days after Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said he wants pull-up bars in airports so people can get their blood flowing.

Those are his words before they get on their plane.

Airline CEOs and the traveling public, let's just say, do not see it that way.