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EconTalk · 2025-06-02 · 69 min · 12,309 words

EconTalk #1000 (with Russ Roberts)

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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econal.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's May fifteenth. uh twenty twenty five. There is no guest today,

Uh this is a monologue. As far as I know, this is the one thousandth episode of Econ Talk. And to mark that occasion, I thought I'd share some thoughts. Uh it's a little self indulgent. I'm gonna talk about Some of the logistics and nuts and bolts of the podcast.

Which people have asked me about over the years. Um And I'm gonna reflect on what this has been like to do this for almost twenty years, uh, one thousand times. So to do that, I I started to do this. I made an outline of what I was gonna talk about and then um Realized I wasn't Excited about doing it. And I went home and told my wife that it had

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