I absolutely love that we have assembled a room full of fellow nerds on a Friday night in this theater to talk about thorny economic concepts.

The best use of a Friday.

But I'll note, I think I do see a bar over there.

It helps every time.

What have you learned about making difficult ideas,

understandable and entertaining?

Yeah, I mean, it was a true gift to get to write a book and do it with the Planet Money

team who has really honed an approach to economics, explaining the economy, and doing it

through stories over more than 15 years.

So, you know, a key tool we use is often storytelling and looking for people who are at the

center of the story, people really experiencing what's going on in the economy, whether

that's finding someone racing, a small business owner, racing to get their products

into the United States before certain tariffs kick in, or people experiencing inflation,

or the policymakers or researchers trying to figure out

how to improve the economy for all of us,

how to control inflation.

And then I also just think, I know economics can be intimidating

at times, but I also think it's just incredibly fascinating to

learn about because it's learning to understand the world better and how it works.

And so I think leaning into your curiosity and the questions you have is often a great way to make economics really approachable, interesting, and fun.

You talk about the value of stories. There are so many good ones in the book, but I'm going to start make economics really approachable, interesting, and fun.

You talk about the value of stories.

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