2025-05-12
58 分钟Our guest today is Adam Ozmek.
Adam is chief economist at Economic Innovation Group and the co-author of a new report titled Exceptional by Design,
How to Fix High-Skilled Immigration to Maximize American Interest.
Adam joins us today to discuss his report as well as to help us make sense of the ongoing trade war.
Adam, welcome back to the podcast.
Thanks for having me.
I was glad to be here.
Well, you are a return guest,
but you are actually here for the first time in the official Mercatus podcast studio.
So we record macro musings here.
Tyler Cowen sits where we're sitting now and does conversations with Tyler.
And I bring this all up
because all of us go way back to the glory days of blogging surrounding the Great Recession.
I believe I started blogging late 2007.
I had an obnoxious op-ed that got rejected by the Wall Street Journal,
so I said, what the heck, I'll blog it.
Terrible time for humanity, great time for blogging if you love macro.
And you and Carl Smith had your very prominent blog, Modeled Behavior.
In fact, that's still your handle on Twitter, right?
Yep, still my handle.