Junking Junk Fees (with Rohit Chopra)
This week, Nick and Goldy sit down with Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to explore the agency's efforts to lower financial costs for working Americans. From cra...
14 Mai 202438min
Decoding the Tech Layoff Panic of 2024 (with Jeffrey Shulman)
Even though the American labor market is currently stronger than it has been in decades, earlier this year Big Tech companies were laying off workers at an alarming pace. Economists struggled to under...
7 Mai 202436min
How to Build a Just Economy (with Nick Romeo)
Journalist Nick Romeo joins us to discuss his new book "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy." Romeo argues that the conventional economic wisdom has fostered political and economic instabilit...
30 Apr 202435min
The Case Against Extreme Wealth (with Ingrid Robeyns)
This week, Nick and Goldy sit down with ethics professor Ingrid Robeyns to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. Robeyns challenges the idea that it’s ac...
23 Apr 202445min
LIVE from DC: Redefining the Center (with Heather Boushey)
This special episode of Pitchfork Economics features a live conversation from the "Redefining the Center: How to Make Middle-Out Economics the New Mainstream" conference hosted by Democracy Journal in...
16 Apr 202431min
The True Crime of Wage Theft (with Terri Gerstein)
In the shadows of corporate greed and exploitation lies a sinister crime that is silently perpetrated, leaving countless victims in its wake—a crime that affects millions of hardworking Americans ever...
9 Apr 202436min
Productivity is a Policy Choice (with Preston Mui)
Preston Mui, Senior Economist at Employ America, recently authored a report titled "The Dream of the 90s is Alive in 2024: How Policy Can Revive Productivity Growth." The report offers a blueprint for...
2 Apr 202435min
Why Wages Are Growing From the Bottom Up and Middle Out (with Arin Dube)
Today, Arin Dube, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins us to discuss his latest research, which suggests that the American labor market is undergoing a remarkable t...
26 Mar 202445min
