Tech layoffs, recession pop and more listener questions answered

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  NPR.

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  Well, well, well, look who the cat dragged in.

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  Claw marks all over me and you don't have any sympathy?

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  You're looking a little worse for wear.

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  It's me, Darian Woods.

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  And me, Adrian Ma.

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  And also me, Waylon Wong.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money, and we are here to answer listener questions.

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  That's right.

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  All the time we get really great questions from listeners about the economic and financial things happening in their lives.

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  So today on the show,

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  is it considered a price control for the president to tell businesses to eat the tariffs?

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  Why does the market for tech jobs feel so lousy?

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  And what is recession pop?

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  You ask, we answer after the break.

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  So let's start with our first listener question.

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  It comes from Tim Madison out of Houston, Texas.

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  Waylon, take us away.

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  All right, so before we hear from Tim, you need a little background here for the question.

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  In May,

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