On today's Planet Money:
-- President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling regulation of the U.S. financial system calls for eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision. David Kestenbaum visits the OTS to get the mood from employees, but only finds one person willing to talk, spokesman Bill Ruberry.
-- Last week's podcast about tariffs prompted a lot of you to ask "Are they really so bad?" Today economist Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute weighs in. Subramanian says ideally he'd like all tariffs to be zero.
Bonus: No more applications in Wooster, Ohio.
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Stephen writes:
Maybe the economy is improving, or maybe the pizza shop job market is just exhausted — from Donato's Pizza in lovely Wooster, Ohio.
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