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Justin Wolfers Breaks Down the Week: Spirit, US Debt, and the AI Economy (with Stacey Vanek Smith)

Justin Wolfers Breaks Down the Week: Spirit, US Debt, and the AI Economy (with Stacey Vanek Smith)

Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers vor 3 Monaten

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What actually mattered in this week’s avalanche of economic news?
In this conversation, Justin talks to his friend, Stacey Vanek
Smith, Senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and cohost of the
Everybody’s Business podcast. Together, they sort the signal from
the noise: Spirit Airlines’ collapse, the U.S. debt hitting 100%
of GDP, and whether AI is really driving growth—or just the
headlines.

For viewers trying to determine what to worry about, what you can
safely ignore, and where’s there’s room for a bit of hope, this
is is a practical guide to what matters and why it affects your
life. The stakes are real: oil shocks can raise the cost of
everyday goods, high debt can reduce the government’s room to
respond in a downturn, and AI could reshape careers faster than
many families are prepared for.

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