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Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much.

We have such a useful show for you today

because we are going to be talking to an absolute rock star

of the economics world, Austin Goolsby.

Now, he last appeared on our show to explain tariffs back in 2018

and compared them at the time to unclogging your kitchen sink with an explosive.

Now, I don't know enough to tell you if that was accurate, but immediately after that, he was

put in charge of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

So, we are going to wait for him to come on with an appropriate metaphor for this situation,

but in the meantime, we want to hear from you.

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