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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Justin Wolfers & Peter S. Goodman

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Think Like an Economist’s Justin Wolfers examines the bad economic vibes coming from the Trump administration. The New York Times’ Peter S. Goodman details Costco’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over tariff policies harming their business.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines

0:10.9

with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And the Supreme Court will decide if Trump's birthright citizenship order can stand.

0:19.5

We have such a great show for you today.

0:21.6

Think like an economist, Justin Wolfers, stops by to talk about the bad economic vibes

0:28.7

coming from the Trump administration.

0:30.1

Then we'll talk to the New York Times' own Peter S. Goodman about Costco's lawsuit against

0:36.4

the Trump administration for the tariff policies harm to their

0:40.9

businesses. But first, the news. Molly, this is really exciting. You and I have been working for months

0:46.4

on a series where we're going to start a conversation on the Dems Project 2029 and what they should do

0:52.6

when they regain power because Republicans were

0:54.8

really prepared and we want to be too. So you and I have been talking to some very smart people.

0:59.6

It's time for our audience to hear about it. Are you excited? We did something like this about

1:04.8

Project 2025 about the Republicans, Project 2025. And we were like one of the first people

1:10.1

to get on that story. And by the way,

1:13.6

Donald Trump was like, no, I don't want to do it. I'm just kidding. And everyone was like,

1:16.9

okay, he's not going to do it. So it was very frustrating for all of us. This is very different.

1:21.9

We are just talking to some really smart academics. We're sort of spitballing how to solve

1:26.8

these problems. I want to say,

1:28.3

this is not the official anything for Project 2029. We're just trying to get the ball rolling,

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