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To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

“Kevin Warsh, You’re a Disgrace”

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.9718 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Economist Justin Wolfers joins Charlie to rage about Trump's Fed chair nominee. They also discuss the importance of Fed independence, prediction markets, and private credit markets. 

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0:00.0

I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome to the To the Contrary podcast this weekend of the Washington Press Corps is holding its capitulation dinner with Donald Trump. And I'm going to spare you a rant. You can find my rants elsewhere. But of course, you know, all the media folks, so you get all dressed up and they go to parties and they hang out with Stephen Miller and Peter Heggzeth. And check out my newsletter yesterday about Barry Weiss's fanciest grovel.

0:27.2

Meanwhile, some updates on our grifted age.

0:30.4

Even the failed sons are cashing in.

0:31.9

You probably saw this story.

0:33.0

Eric Trump-back robot startup lands lands 24 million dollar Pentagon deal.

0:39.6

Imagine Eric Trump is very, very jazzed about getting a Pentagon deal.

0:43.2

I'm pure merit, I'm sure.

0:45.7

Now, the prediction markets, the Department of Justice has arrested a soldier who made $400,000

0:52.7

betting on Maduro's removal. He actually was a special ops soldier,

0:58.3

and he figured, I know exactly what's about to happen. My prediction is you're going to see

1:03.1

a lot more of this. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is floating more bailouts, including of Spirit Airlines.

1:10.4

We're going to get into all of that.

1:12.6

And I feel the need to mention this today, sign our stable genius president may not be, I don't know, things may not be going that well.

1:22.7

You might have missed early Friday morning he posted that if the Southern Poverty Law Center

1:30.6

charges go through, which by the way have nothing to do with the 2020 election, if it is true,

1:37.5

he writes, this is the president of the United States, the 2020 presidential election

1:41.1

should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or

1:47.2

effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. Okay, so here's the

1:54.5

president taking time out from everything else to basically say that we should retroactively just

1:59.2

pretend the 2020 election which he lost should be

2:02.9

wiped from the books. What could possibly go wrong? All right, joining us this weekend, it makes

2:12.2

sense of it all. Our good friend, Justin Wilfers, economist from the University of Michigan.

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