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Hi, and welcome to The Longview.

I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning

for Morning Star. And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is New York Times economics reporter Talman Smith. Before joining

the business desk, he was a staff editor for the Times Opinion section, covering public policy,

economics, and culture. He began his career as a researcher and visiting scholar at NYU's

Journalism Institute and was assistant to the editor-in-chief at GQ Magazine. He graduated from

Tufts University with a major in history.

Tell, welcome to the Longview.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, thanks for being here.

So we want to start by talking about your work as an economic reporter for the Times. Can you talk about how you define your beat so that you're not bumping into the work that your colleagues who are also

working on the economy are doing? Yeah, so I'd say that broadly I cover macro labor markets and

financial markets intersect with those other two topics. But what's really nice about

our newsroom, both virtually and in person,

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