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So are we ready to go? I think so.

Okay, Jordan Weissman. Yes. I would like to introduce you to someone, which is yourself.

Oh. From like nine or so months ago. No, don't do that. This is going to be, this is

going to be brutal. Jordan Weissman covers the economy for slate.

I don't want to confront the ghosts of economic predictions past. Please, please, anything

about that.

He is pleading for mercy here because he knows exactly what I'm about to do. I'm going

to make fun of him. So just at the scene, President Biden was about to pass his big stimulus

bill. Yeah.

And there was this concern at the time that if we passed a $2 trillion bill, it would overheat

the economy. Do you remember what you said to me when I asked you about that?

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