Pushkin.

Hi, I'm David Axel Rod,

CNN Senior Political Commentator, former Senior Advisor to President Obama,

and host of the Ax-files Podcast.

Join me each week as I interview key figures shaping our world from politics to the arts to sports

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Listen on your favorite podcast app or ask your smart speaker to play The the axe files with David Axelrod. Let's play around. Warder Studios, it sounds very Elvin.

I always think of David Bowie when I think of Wardaw

in one of his early songs talks about

Bright Light Soho Wardaw Street.

Bowie himself has an Elfin aspect.

He certainly does.

His breakthrough gig at Aalesbury, my hometown,

which basically is about the only thing remarkable about Aalesbury.

Well, and also home of Tim Hartford, as the plaque says.

Yeah, they've got a statue for Bowie, not yet for me. I don't know why. Should we go?

Okay. Let's go. Okay, I, no. Hello and welcome back to another episode of cautionary questions, our first of 2024.

I am, of course, Tim Harford.

You are our loyal listeners.

You've been sending in your burning questions on money, technology, economics and problem solving, and thank you so much

to everyone who's done so.

And today is the day I do my best to answer them, and thankfully I won't be alone in this endeavor.

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