Optimist Economy: transcripts

Immigration Economics Part II: Smaller is Worse 2026-10-27 · 41m

Americans Feel Awful About the Economy 2026-10-20 · 48m

The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging? 2026-09-01 · 52m

Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising: The Invitation (Ep. 1) 2026-08-11 · 38m

Stop Donating Your Vacation Days to Your Boss 2026-08-04 · 50m

The Government is Already Paying for Your Health Insurance, Buddy 2026-07-28 · 48m

Mr. Justin Time Sets a Cruel Work Schedule 2026-07-21 · 49m

Young Americans Should Be Raising Hell About Social Security 2026-07-14 · 44m

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better 2026-07-07 · 52m

America at 250: Case for the Defense 2026-06-30 · 53m

Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch 2026-06-23 · 52m

Inflation Risk is the Wrong Recession Lesson 2026-06-16 · 50m

Make the Economy Work for Freelancers, Too (#askingforafriend) 2026-06-09 · 48m

About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job… 2026-06-02 · 59m

Should We Cherish the Ultra-Wealthy? (a.k.a. ‘The Cornfield’) 2026-05-26 · 43m

No Overtime for the Supervisor of Sandwiches 2026-05-19 · 49m

Can the U.S. Go ‘Cashless?’ 2026-05-12 · 44m

The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense 2026-05-05 · 58m

Progress is a Long Game 2026-04-28 · 50m

The Great Wage Stagnation 2026-04-21 · 47m

Tax Reform Gone Wild 2026-04-14 · 46m

Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore 2026-04-07 · 46m

The Optimists Have Questions… 2026-03-31 · 54m

Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too. 2026-03-24 · 42m

If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It 2026-03-17 · 51m

Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really. 2026-03-10 · 50m

Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers? 2026-03-03 · 49m

Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities 2026-02-24 · 58m

What The Actual Fed. 2026-02-17 · 53m

We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage. 2026-02-10 · 45m

Affordability vs. the Poverty Line 2026-02-03 · 48m

$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality 2026-01-27 · 49m

We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism 2026-01-20 · 1m

What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public? 2025-12-10 · 16m

Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate 2025-11-20 · 53m

Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza) 2025-10-21 · 41m

How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs 2025-10-14 · 51m

Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump? 2025-10-07 · 52m

Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System? 2025-09-30 · 68m

The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now 2025-09-23 · 61m

The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented 2025-09-16 · 50m

The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave 2025-09-09 · 55m

Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy? 2025-09-02 · 54m

Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate 2025-08-26 · 58m

GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy 2025-08-19 · 53m

How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy 2025-08-12 · 60m

What You Don’t Know About Poverty 2025-08-05 · 48m

Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Government ROI 2025-07-31 · 32m

Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Poverty and More 2025-07-29 · 43m

A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage 2025-07-22 · 58m

Collective Bargaining Without the Unionization Battles 2025-07-15 · 53m

The Tax We’re 99.93% Sure That You Will Never Pay 2025-07-08 · 55m

About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job… 2025-07-01 · 55m

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better 2025-06-24 · 51m

Work Requirements Don’t Work 2025-06-17 · 54m

The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging? 2025-06-10 · 51m

College Rules! But Student Loans are a Hot Mess! 2025-06-03 · 59m

OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions 2025-05-27 · 50m

The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Want to Change Diapers 2025-05-20 · 59m

A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S. 2025-05-13 · 52m

Progress is a Long Game 2025-05-06 · 51m

Paid Sick Days for Lady Gaga (and Everyone Else Too) 2025-04-29 · 43m

AI Suggested Five Horrible Titles for This Episode 2025-04-22 · 46m

Work Rules for the Modern World 2025-04-15 · 38m

Robin Loves a Tax Story 2025-04-08 · 33m

Social Security Don’t Miss 2025-04-01 · 53m

Is This a Recession or Not? 2025-03-28 · 47m

An Elegy for the DEI Boogeyman 2025-03-25 · 31m

All We've Tried is Nothing! 2025-03-18 · 18m

Welcome to Optimist Economy 2025-03-17 · 1m

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