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In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdahl.

It is Friday today.

This one is the 21st of March.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

With the stipulation that there is honestly too much going on in this economy to a cover in a single segment, we're going to try real hard.

Courtney Brown is it Axios. City Breedy., is at Politico. Hey, you two.

Hey, Kay.

Hey, Kay. Courtney Brown, let me begin with you and Jay Powell, obviously the Federal Reserve this week,

as we know, decided not to do anything with interest rates, blah, blah, blah. We know the nuts and

bolts of what the chair said. Here's the thing that interests me. I think the word uncertainty was mentioned seven or eight times in this presser,

and Powell said literally nobody trusts their forecast now. He kind of shrugged when asked what

was going to happen. Is that at all concerning that of the 400 plus economists at the Federal Reserve,

not one of them can say to Jay Powell, here's what we think is going to happen?

I think that says so much about this moment.

I mean, they aren't, you know, they aren't magicians.

They aren't mind readers, these economists, as smart as they are.

They know what everyone else knows, and all they have to go on is history. But when what the

administration is proposing from a tariff standpoint is pretty much unprecedented. It's hard to rely on

history. My favorite moment from the press conference was when Chair Powell kind of challenged,

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