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Well, well, well, look who the cat dragged in.

Claw marks all over me, and you don't have any sympathy?

You're looking a little worse for where.

It's me, Dary In Woods.

And me, Adrian Ma.

And also me, Waylon Wong.

This is the indicator from Planet Money, and we are here to answer listener questions.

That's right.

All the time we get really great questions from listeners about the economic and financial things happening in their lives.

So today on the show, is it considered a price control for the president to tell businesses to eat the tariffs?

Why does the market for tech jobs feel so lousy?

And what is recession pop?

You ask, we answer after the break.

So let's start with our first listener question.

It comes from Tim Madison out of Houston, Texas.

Waylon, take us away.

All right.

So before we hear from Tim, you need a little background here for the question.

In May,

Walmart's chief financial officer said price increases from tariffs were too high for the company to absorb entirely. He warned that some prices would be going up, and then President Trump

posted on Truth Social saying Walmart should partially eat the tariffs and that he would be watching.

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