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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade
Description: I'm talking to Evan Smith, who started Altana in 2019 because he predicted the first wave of globalized manufacturing and trade would end, and that companies would want new powerful tools to adapt their supply chains as the world grew more complex. Here in 2025, that looks like a pretty good bet — even if the way it's playing out is more stressful and chaotic than anyone really wants it to be.There are some big, unsettling ideas here, but talking about them directly and with clarity at least made me feel like I had a framework to...