HeyJaredEconomics Matters by Laurence Kotlikoff
Economics can make a massive difference - collectively and personally.
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Betsy Stevenson, Former Department of Labor Chief Economist and University of Michigan Professor (opens the original)
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Betsy Stevenson lives and breaths economics. Amen to that. She’s one of the best our profession has to offer. Please listen/watch this truly insightful episode of Economics Matters.Betsy’s BioBetsy is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Lyft, Inc and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a fellow of the Ifo
2013 Oxford Union Debate: “That This House Still Dreams the American Dream.” Yea or Nay? (opens the original)
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Iran’s Prime Hostage -- Donald Trump (opens the original)
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Harvard's Pathbreaking Economist, Raj Chetty, Joins Economics Matters to Discuss US Inequality and Mobility and How to Fix Both (opens the original)
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Do listen to this podcast. You will learn amazing things about the limits of rational economic choice, the importance of the quality of teachers on children’s lifetime earnings, the extent of US economic mobility and its remarkable dependence on where people grow up, the critical importance of cross-class connections (the nature and extent of your social capital) and exposure to role models to your economic success, and AI’s potential to make tremendous improvements in government job-training an
Mr. Fiscal Policy, Eugene Steuerle, is Back to Discuss "Abandoned -- How Democrats and Republicans Have Deserted the Working Class, the Young, and the American Dream" (opens the original)
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Worried about $40 trillion in federal debt? Worried about Social Security cutting your benefits by one fifth in six years? Worried that the US is in far worse fiscal shape than Italy? Worried that the American Dream is, for far too many, a vicious nightmare? Worried that the land of opportunity is now the land of inequality? Worried that your kids will have it worse than you? Gene Steuerle, Washington’s fiscal policy aficionado, will take you from worried to terrified. So, grab a drink, an Ativa
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