Stacey Vanek-Smith

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2,095 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · The Hidden Link Between Government Debt and Everyday Credit | Off the Clock · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

it.

You're an excellent explainer.

You are a teacher.

You are in the media all the time.

So you're very good at explaining things.

But the bond market, it does us all in in the end.

So I have a challenge for you.

You ready for the bond market challenge?

I have to give a shout out to your social media guru, Sam Westby, for this idea because I think it is so genius.

It is the jargon jar.

I challenge you.

So I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions about the bond

what's going on in the bond market, and try not to use any jargon.

And by jargon, I mean like a word that, let's say, a very like a bright comparative literature major who is listening would not know.

And we will see how many jargons, how many words of jargon you use.

And if you do, at the end, we'll kind of go over the jargon.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

I'm going to give us a little primer into bonds and then I'm going to go in on what's happening.

The best way that I have learned to describe bonds, I have like little things that I go through because as a journalist having to describe the bond market, it is daunting.

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