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The Tradeoff is a twice-weekly podcast delivering fast context on how policy and market decisions actually affect real life.
Hosted by Mattie Duppler—a former Capitol Hill leader, Big Tech executive, and cable news veteran—the show focuses on what headlines often miss: who decisions affect, how tradeoffs show up in the economy, and what matters next.
Drawing on her experience negotiating some of the biggest modern policy changes in Washington, Mattie provides short, fast insights designed to help you see patterns in real time—so when a headline hits, you already know what questions to ask.
If you want to understand the news without wading through noise or sitting through an economics seminar, this show is for you.
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Hot or Not: Summer Economy Edition
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Q1 GDP Grew 2%. The Story Is Where the Money Went.
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May 05, 2026 |
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The Trump Fed Math: Why Lower Rates Aren't a Done Deal
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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How I Created The Tradeoff: The Two Questions That Decode Any Economic Story
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The IMF Planned to Upgrade Growth. Then the Iran War Happened.
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Tax Day 2026: An IRS without a Commissioner, a Bigger Refund, and a Tax Code That Can’t Keep Up
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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The Iran Ceasefire Bought Two Weeks. There's No Refund on the Economic Chaos the Conflict Created
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff Cheat Sheet Worked: Your Q1 Review
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Once in a Lifetime, Again and Again
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Aging Into Irrelevance
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Zero Employment Growth Equilibrium: What it is, Why it Matters, and Why the Fed Can't Fix It
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Your Cheat Sheet for Tomorrow's Fed Press Conference
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Dead Capital: The One Asset America Declined to Optimize
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Setback Economy: How One Year Erased a Decade of Women's Economic Gains
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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What the Iran Attack Means for Your Wallet
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff Essentials: My Top 3 Episodes While I'm Traveling
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Trump's Tariffs Were Struck Down. Here's Why Your Prices Aren't Dropping.
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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President Trump's State of the Union 2026: The Trade Breakdown
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Housing Affordability: The Fix Is Supply. So Why Does Everyone Keep Talking About Rates?
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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The Tab No One Is Picking Up
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Is the Labor Market Weak or Just Waiting? Decoding Confusing Jobs Data
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: Paramount vs. Netflix in the Battle for Warner Bros.
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Tech Stocks Are Tanking. Here's What the Market Knows That You Don't
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: A New Way to Read the Economy
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: The Fed’s Most Important Decision Was Doing Nothing
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: Can You Really Defund ICE?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: Why One Fed Seat Could Define an Entire Presidency
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff: How A Fight Over Greenland Hits Your Wallet
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff in the Administration's Inquiry into the Federal Reserve
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff in the Inflation Data: Trends That Could Shape the Election
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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The Tradeoff in the December Jobs Report: Explaining the Reshaping of the Labor Market
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Introducing: The Tradeoff with Mattie Duppler
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Jan 09, 2026 |