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#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

Update: 2025-04-04

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* We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

* Note: watch Kmele and Moynihan (and Gerald Posner) on the latest episode of the Moynihan Report

* Eli’s new Liberation Day jam

* These tariffs are dumb

* Really, really dumb

* Ruinously dumb

* Laura Loomer is dumb

* Tom Sowell isn’t dumb

* MAGA’s Iraq

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#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch