Social Security Is Broke. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Check
The headlines say Social Security is running out of money. But what if the real numbers are actually far worse than what the headlines are showing you, and the trustees' report is burying the truth in...
29 Jul 59min
The Man Who Beat Goldman Sachs at Stock Picking — From a Trading Desk in Memphis
What does it actually take to consistently beat the market when 90% of professional fund managers can't, and what is a Wall Street veteran seeing right now that has him warning ordinary investors to g...
23 Jul 1h 21min
The Man Who Invented the HSA Thinks We're Still Doing Healthcare All Wrong
What if the most powerful tax-advantaged account in your financial life was designed by one economist with a better idea, and the full version of that idea was never actually implemented?You've probab...
9 Jul 59min
"We're Running a 20th Century Operating System on a 21st Century Economy — And It's Crashing"
What happens when five completely unrelated thinkers, writing across five different decades, all point to the exact same moment in history as a coming crisis point...and that moment is now?Samuel Hunt...
2 Jul 1h 5min
The Man Who Turned Down $1.3 Million to Stay in School — And Changed Medicine Forever
What does it actually take to solve a scientific puzzle that stumped researchers for fifty years — and why are the same AI tools that cracked it still getting basic financial math catastrophically wro...
25 Jun 1h 20min
The Regime We Were Supposed to Topple Just Got Stronger
What if everything you've been told about the new Iran deal — and what "winning" the war even meant — is built on a comparison that doesn't hold up, and a strategic outcome that's the opposite of what...
25 Jun 1h 7min
The $83 Billion Scam Hidden Inside Medicare (And the Economist Who Proved It)
What if the system designed to protect your health in retirement was actually engineered (from the inside) to profit from keeping you confused, underserved, and locked out of the care you've already p...
9 Jun 58min
Are Netanyahu's Policies Reshaping Israel For the Better Or Worse?
Can Israel reverse its political and social trajectory as elections approach amid ongoing wars and rising international isolation? Economics Matters co-host, Alex Kotlikoff, reunites with Israel's mos...
21 Mai 51min
