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Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*

“I don’t know. In general, if you worked for the Trump administration early on, you might have had the notion you can do a lot to make things better.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Speaker
Tyler Cowen
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uncertainty
Recorded
16 Oct 2018
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Yeah. I don’t know. In general, if you worked for the Trump administration early on, you might have had the notion you can do a lot to make things better. And I respected that choice when people made it. It seems to me now things are so chaotic and running in such strange, unpredictable, and often destructive directions, I tend to think most people should not be working in the Trump administration. He signed on at a time when maybe there was more promise. So probably somewhat underrated, but I don’t think he was very effective. Choosing to pass on questions in overrated and underrated.…

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