How Americans Can Cease Being Rich

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Economist Noah Smith delves into the myth of the "hollowed out" middle class, the folly of protectionism, and more. He and Mona differ on Trump's handling of Covid and . . . American chocolate.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the Mona Charin Show. Delighted today to welcome Noah Smith. He's an economist,
0:08.2	a blogger. Can you still say blogger? Yeah, you know, poster, blogger, podcaster, all around
0:17.7	educator of the American people about economic matters.
0:22.6	So Noah, great to see you.
0:24.8	Thanks for coming.
0:25.9	Great to see you.
0:26.8	And yes, I do self-identify as a blogger.
0:29.3	Excellent.
0:29.9	Excellent.
0:30.4	Okay.
0:31.5	So you had a great post this morning that is all about like the broader understanding of where we are.
0:41.6	So we're going to talk about tariffs.
0:43.2	We're going to talk about trade.
0:45.7	But I want to begin by pulling back a little bit and just doing a little basic economics,
0:53.2	if you don't mind.
0:55.5	Are you familiar with a show called Tudor Monastery Farm?
0:59.6	I am not.
1:00.7	Please tell me about it.
1:01.9	Okay.
1:02.5	So Tudor Monastery Farm, I think it was a BBC production many years ago.
1:07.2	So it's a little bit old now.
1:09.3	It doesn't matter because it's one of those
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