On the Planet Money podcast, you've seen them, those labels that say made in China or made in France.

But what do they really mean?

The reaction was, it can't possibly work like that.

That can't possibly be right.

We dig into the delightfully convoluted rules behind country of origin.

What makes, say, a Chinese product, Chinese, and how companies facing tariffs are getting creative. From Planet Money on NPR,

wherever you get your podcasts. Our weekly series, If You Can Keep It, is back. That's where we discuss the

big political stories of the moment

and what they mean for the future of our democracy. After slashing the workforce by tens of

thousands earlier this year, the Trump administration is looking to fill hundreds of empty

positions, this time with a reimagined hiring policy. Under the new policy, applicants to

federal jobs are asked to spell out their political

loyalties to the Trump administration. The move ignores or sidesteps longstanding laws that aim to

protect the government from a political takeover. We asked you what you think about how the administration

is handling hiring for civil service jobs. Here's what Bob in Yorktown told us.

I'm a current federal employee. I've worked for the federal government since the Clinton

administration, and I've never seen anything like this before. I mean, this will undermine the

public trust in what the federal workforce is supposed to do, and that is work for the American

people in a nonpartisan way.

Doing this is against everything that we've taken as an oath to the Constitution and everything

that we've always stood for. So I'm strongly against any kind of loyalty test for federal employees.

Thanks a lot, Bob. So how might a new approach to the hiring of federal employees

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