This week we talk about changes in consumer credit, disappearing fast-food jobs in California, and six things the climate movement gets wrong about China. Our guest this week is popular economics Substacker and chart maker extraordinaire Joey Politano of Apricitas Economics and The Argument. We talk about tariffs, tech jobs, federalism, housing abundance, and more.

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