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Thank you, Bill. 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 Goolsbee. 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. The number to call is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant.
Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, this is Jen Ainsley calling from New York City. I'm in Harlem. You're in Harlem, New York City? Well, that's fabulous.
That's a great neighborhood. What do you do there?
I'm an executive admin to the president of a luxury fitness company.
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