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Justin Wolfers examines President Trump's executive order permitting truckers to purchase red diesel—fuel normally reserved for agricultural, construction, and mining use and exempt from federal excise tax. The order also defers the 24.4-cent federal highway tax until after the election. The White House claims this…
Worth it if you want a quick, skeptical breakdown of Trump's diesel order and appreciate economic analysis that questions policy claims rather than accepts them at face value.
In this 25-minute episode of 'Diving In,' economist Justin Wolfers examines a major policy announcement by the Trump administration regarding oil and fuel releases. The headline claims a massive win: 100 million barrels of emergency oil and fuel released to bring diesel prices down. However, Wolfers digs into the…
Worth it if you want to understand how to critically evaluate political economic claims or appreciate rigorous analysis that cuts through rhetoric to reveal what policies actually do.
Platypus Economics host Justin Wolfers addresses listener questions about the September jobs report, which showed weaker-than-expected employment figures alongside downward revisions to July and August data. The episode's central thesis reframes what might seem like bad news—repeated corrections to official…
Worth it if you follow economic news, want to understand jobs reports better, or distrust government statistics and need reassurance about how they're actually produced.
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