Adam Ozimek is the Chief Economist at the Economic Innovation Group. Adam returns to the show to discuss the importance of reforming the high-skilled immigration process, the main bottlenecks with our current green card system, the glory days of economics blogging, how to revitalize the American heartland, Trump's current trade war, and much more.
Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links.
Recorded on April 15th, 2025
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) – Intro
(00:00:50) – Blogging Days
(00:02:33) – How to Fix High-Skilled Immigration
(00:27:08) – Busting the Myths
(00:33:58) – Additional Parts of Adam's Immigration Proposal
(00:40:13) – Trump's Trade War
(00:58:25) – Outro
