The Role of Thomas Friedman in the Economy

A lot of the actual kind of like punditry that they're doing and things that they talk about at these dinners It's stuff that they're regurgitating from like Thomas Friedman columns, right? I guess at some point. When Tom Friedman is gonna publish your little Screed about how Walmart's gonna do better in his book. If he's just going to regurgitate what they tell him that can be useful, right? He takes their thoughts pumps them into the New York Times with a metaphor Mm-hmm those guys read it they make policy based on it and then they talk to Thomas Friedman again, right?