Hello listeners. This is Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Charlie Matessian sitting in for Scott Bland.

This week we're talking tariffs, trade, and why the stock market seems pretty much

unfazed by Donald Trump despite all the uncertainty he brings.

Plus, we'll discuss what we learned

and just as important what we didn't learn

from this week's primary election voting in Texas. A reminder to our listeners to subscribe to the

nerdcast, rate us, and write a review and stay tuned at the end of the show for a

shout out to one of our favorite nerdcast fans. And one more note before we begin.

We're taping this in the middle of the day

on Thursday, March 8th, so it's all up to date as of then.

So let's get started by welcoming Nerdcast regular, Regular, and White House reporter, Nancy.

Hey, Nancy.

Hey, thanks for having me.

And Ben White, our chief economic correspondent in the host of Politico Money.

Hey Ben.

Charlie, it's great to be here.

Ben, I can't begin to tell you how excited we are about this podcast cross-pollination here.

I feel like our corporate overlords are just feeling tingly about all the synergy.

The synergy is absolutely overwhelming me.

I'm thrilled by it.

I go on Ben's podcast a lot so we can geek out about Econ.

So this was already happening.

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