Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Crit Note before I get into the episode. Today kicks off this month's daily episode series.

I really enjoyed recording daily episodes at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

doing so helped me think through the biggest moment of the year, so with this series,

I hope to do the same on a bigger scope looking back on 2020.2.

There are always going to be too many episodes this month for anyone person to listen to,

so here's how I'd best recommend you go through this series. Trident almost like a buffet,

pick and choose the episodes and topics that are most of interest to you.

3 quick requests. Number one, this was the year we started monetizing the podcast with

Supercast, putting a lot of work into these daily episodes of the next few weeks, so if this or

any other episode I do particularly resonates with you, I'd really appreciate it if you went to

realignment.supercast.com or click the link in the show notes to support the show,

helping us wrap a great 2022 to keep up with everything I am putting out. This is the second request.

Defweigh check out the sub stack, which goes out every Friday, including today. My goal is to start

adding transcripts of episodes. It's been something people really asked for at least, so those

will be linked there as well. You can find the link to the sub stack in the show notes.

That's not least if you enjoy this running episode, share it with a friend and leave us a five-star

rating on Apple podcasts. Now onto the episode, today I'm speaking with Noah Smith,

Econ Blogger and Writer of the No-Pinion sub stack. We cover a lot in this episode, but the

primary theme is that 2022 marked the actual end of the 2010s decade, much of the same way that

the quote unquote, 60s didn't actually begin on January 1, 1960 and didn't even end until the 1973

and 1974 period that marked the end of the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's in his telling. The 2010s

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