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I feel like the most unexpected thing was how much trade policy determines where everything gets made. In Indonesia and Bangladesh, we saw entire industries (spinning and sewing) that got started because of quotas in the seventies. Entire nations were transformed by numbers in some trade deal.
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And sometimes Kestenbaum will just walk in and say, hey why are these different bags of M&Ms different weights? and boom. podcast.
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