Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein × Jasmine Sun

Data-center opposition has gone national and bipartisan, rising from roughly four-in-ten voters last August to seven-in-ten by May, alongside 100+ moratorium proposals and New York’s freeze.Local officials say subsidies are unnecessary, while Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant site is on track to pay $19.6 million in 2026; Foxconn’s failed jobs promise leaves stranded-asset risk, and moratoriums may relocate compute.

David Sacks × Larry Summers × Ezra Klein × Chamath Palihapitiya

The 90-day retreat left a 10% universal tariff, sectoral duties, fresh threats, and a 125% China tariff, preserving policy risk rather than restoring the old trade regime.Summers estimated roughly $6 trillion in erased equity value and warned tariffs could weaken purchasing power, demand, and confidence, while the debate set a two-year test of growth, resilience, and trade outcomes.

Lex Fridman × Ezra Klein × Derek Thompson

Klein and Thompson argue America’s binding economic problem has shifted from inadequate demand to manufactured scarcity, with housing, clean energy, infrastructure, health care, and scientific capacity constrained by authorization-to-execution failures.Housing is the load-bearing asset class because scarcity raises living costs, blocks labor mobility, and closes access to productive clusters, while DOGE and tariff volatility test whether government can build capacity without weakening feedback loops or raising homebuilding costs.