Stacey Vanek-Smith

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

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

And then Q4.

And of course, these numbers get adjusted.

That must be said.

but it just seems like if you back up from the chart, it just seems like

Things are slowing down.

And that feels very counter to where it feels like we should be with all of this new technology coming online and making people more productive and causing all kinds of disruption in our lives.

It seems like the good part of that should be economic growth, but we're not seeing that.

This is why I'm worried.

This is why this chart feels like such a big seismic deal to me.

Okay.

I'm just amused at the theatrics.

I feel like if you really had confidence in your chart being a superior chart, you wouldn't be, you know, but that's just me.

Anyway, continue.

So this is since Trump took office.

Is that data center construction?

Investment, all of it.

Okay.

Well, I did want to ask one quick question.

So like you, me, all the work that we do, it's all just in the little purple bar.

I do have like one final thing I would like to say for the voters' consideration.

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