Stacey Vanek-Smith

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466 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2 Aug

Stacey Vanek-Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · Tariffs, Take Three: The Dumbest Round Yet | Off the Clock · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

You kind of you're like, OK, I'm going to keep a little powder dry.

You know, I'm going to keep a little savings just in case you're not going to say, I think we need to open this new factory.

I think we need to hire all these new people.

Let's take a chance.

Let's expand.

And I feel like in order for that sort of expansive growth to come into an economy, and I think it could be in the economy because of AI and all the promise of it, I think all of the sort of fear and uncertainty around policy, things like tariffs and gas prices and all that stuff, I think that is kind of draining some of the energy that would otherwise be going into growing the economy.

That's what I saw when I saw those numbers that worried me.

Chart versus chart.

What are we competing for?

Yeah.

I think those pillows behind you, I am really coveting your platypus pillows.

I like the artier one.

The artier, oh right.

Yeah.

It's cause it's like a logo.

It's like the Apple logo or something, you know what I mean?

It's like, if you know, you know.

I thought so when I was looking at it.

Are people going to like vote on this?

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