Tariffs, DOGE, and Your Money w/ Noahpinion #944

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We’re not burying the lede on this episode- we’re talking about the most pressing policies in government today and how they’re likely to impact our personal finances! One of the benefits of hosting your own podcast is that you have the opportunity to speak with some amazing folks who are much smarter than you- and that is definitely the case today. We’re joined by economist Noah Smith, author of the substack Noahpinion where he takes big complex economic ideas, and makes them easier to understand for the common folk like us! This is a change of pace because we tend to focus more on microeconomic factors… that being said, it’s good to take a step back and look at the big picture and to understand what’s going on with the water that we’re all swimming in, to reference David Foster Wallace. Given all that’s been going on lately with tariffs, this is a more timely episode, but we’re also pumped to get into declining birth rates, government spending, the state of the overall economy, how effective DOGE will be, the three key technologies of our day, and plenty more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Money. I'm Joel. I'm Matt.
0:02.8	Today we're talking tariffs, Doge, and your money with no opinion. Yeah, Joel.
0:26.0	So one of the benefits of hosting your own podcast is that you've got the opportunity to speak with some amazing folks who are much smarter than you.
0:33.2	That is definitely the case today.
0:34.7	We're joined by economist Noah Smith, author of the substack
0:39.0	No Opinion, where he takes these big, complex economic ideas and makes them easier to
0:44.4	understand for folks like us, Joel. I mean, we tend to focus more on micro-econ factors, right?
0:50.1	We're a personal finance show, after all. It's still good to take a step back and to look at the
0:54.2	big picture to honestly to understand like what's going on with the water that we're all swimming in
0:59.7	and given all that's been going on lately with tariffs, you know, this is a more timely episode,
1:04.2	but we're also excited to get into some topics like declining birth rates, government spending,
1:10.1	the economy overall, plenty more today.
1:13.4	Noah, he actually, he even believes that rabbits are underrated pets.
1:17.4	And I don't know if we'll actually see eye to eye on that one.
1:20.1	Who knows?
1:20.6	Maybe Noah, you can convince us.
1:22.4	But thank you for joining us today on the podcast.
1:24.9	Hey, great to be here.
1:26.0	Thanks for having me on.
1:27.0	We're glad to have
1:27.5	you know. First question we ask everyone who comes on the show is, what do you like to
1:31.3	splurge on? Because I'm sure you're being smart, you're saving, you're being thoughtful about
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