Your thoughts on the economy in 2025
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Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. This is our final episode of 2025, and it has been a, let's use the word, wild year. So we thought it would be nice to hear from you, our wonderful listeners, all about it. We're going to dig into the mailbag a bit and hear from some of the guests who helped us make sense of the news this year. Our producer, Courtney Bergseeker, is here to help us out. Hey, Courtney. Hey, Kimberly. Should we get into it? Yeah, let's get into it. Before we hear some of our listeners' thoughts on the year, we heard from a lot of people about last week's series on the care economy. Several folks shared their experience as a caregiver with us.
What are listeners' thoughts on the economy in 2025?
So let's hear one of those messages that we got from Sherry in Washington. So I was a caregiver for my father who had dementia while working full-time and raising a family. And while I was caregiving, I was 100% in fight mode. And then when I lost my dad, the physical and mental toll that showed up was frankly profound. And I found myself in a space where there was so much information intended to help you that it actually turned out to be no information. And I ended up feeling very alone. So I found a woman that had had a similar experience, and we decided to write a book about our journey from the perspective of people who actually did the work of caregiving. It's called With Love, A Practical Guide to Caregiving for Aging Parents to the End of Life.
Thank you so much to everybody who shared their caregiving stories with us throughout this series. I've definitely heard from a lot of folks in my own life as well as online about it. And I hope that if folks take anything away from that is that you're not alone in the experience. And even if you haven't. had to deal with these issues yourself at this point, or in some cases had the privilege of being able to do this yourself, some version of this is going to end up affecting all of our lives. So especially around the holidays, I hope people will take the opportunity to start having these conversations with loved ones about how they want to be cared for, how you want to be cared for, and how you as, you know, whatever family looks like to you are going to manage these important parts of your life.
Yeah. Thank you so much again to everybody who who sent us a message or a voicemail about this. We really appreciate it. OK, now we're going to get into what everyone had to say about 2025. Kimberly, I bet you can guess the number one word that came up in our mailbag this year. Anime. Nope. No, of course not. The tariff sort of palooza. With the tariff rush. And the tariff situation that's going on right now. I wanted to put a little bit of a perhaps different spin on some of the tariff concerns. Of course, tariffs. I mean, that makes perfect sense, right, Courtney? Yes, it does make perfect sense. So that was Daniel in Seattle, Michelle in Arizona, Vinay in Arizona, and Tamara in Colorado. 2025 was the year of the tariff, and David in Pennsylvania agreed.
Here's what he had to say about it. I'm also reminded of, in response to tariffs, you and Kai's comments about them back in the spring of this year. where you basically laid out four different competing reasons for tariffs and how they all cancel each other out effectively. And I keep thinking that when I hear various and sundry like bringing industrial jobs back. No, wait, that's not working. It's just constant rotating through what they're accomplishing with them, but realizing it's not actually that much. Thank you for keeping us smart this year. Here's to the next year. The other wild thing to me about the tariff arc over the last year has been... how, in addition to what David just laid out about these sort of competing reasons as to why the tariffs existed and whether or not they worked or whatever, because they were put on pause and then rolled back and then adjusted and then more tariffs were added on top of that and then they were going back and forth, it made it so impossible for businesses and consumers to meaningfully respond to them that it also made it impossible for
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