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So are we ready to go? I think so.

Okay, Jordan Weissman. Yes. I would like to introduce you to someone, which is yourself.

Oh. From like nine or so months ago. No, don't do that. This is going to be, this

is going to be brutal. Jordan Weissman covers the economy for

slate. I don't want to confront the ghosts of economic predictions past. Please, please,

anything but that. He is pleading for mercy here, because he knows exactly what I'm about

to do. I'm going to make fun of him. So just at the scene, President Biden was about to

pass his big stimulus bill. Yeah. And there was this concern at the time that if we passed

a $2 trillion bill, it would overheat the economy. Do you remember what you said to me when

I asked you about that? I think I said, I actually do remember this pretty well. I said that

it would actually maybe be a good idea to try and overheat the economy just to see if we

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