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I'm calling today because I've got a question.

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actually knows what they're talking about. Today that's Tyler Cowan. Tyler

thank you so much for doing this. Happy to be here. Okay so right now it

feels really difficult to get a handle on what exactly

is happening with the economy. We were told that five years ago when Trump took

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