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Today’s Podcast Features are:

- Michael McKee, Bloomberg International Economics and Policy Correspondent, on Friday's PCE data. Consumer spending was weaker than expected again in February while a key inflation metric picked up, in a double whammy for the economy before the brunt of tariffs. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending edged up 0.1%, on the low end of economists’ estimates, after a slump January that analysts mostly blamed on bad weather. Notably in February, Americans reduced spending on services for the first time in three years in the face of higher prices — including on dining out.

- Nathan Dean, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Policy Analyst, on tariffs, DOGE, and the Senate voting on a budget resolution.

- Kirsten Fontenrose, President of Red Six International, speaks on Europe's defense spending. The European Commission is urging members to raise military budgets to 3% of gross domestic product and issue joint debt to fund weapons purchases — moves that could unlock more than €800 billion ($867 billion) in additional spending over four years. Plus Gazans protesting against Hamas.

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