Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
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We'd love to hear from you. Today is March 18th, 2026, and my guest is the writer Aled McLean-Jones. His substack is Rake's digress. or digress. Aled was last year in February 2026 talking about Swiss watches.
Aled, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thank you, Russ. It's a real pleasure to pleasure to be back. I want to say our topic for today is Tom Cruise, but don't leave. Listeners, don't, don't, don't switch, because that's not really the topic, but it's related to an essay that
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