How Lab-Grown Diamonds Broke the Market | Off the Clock
Justin Wolfers and Bloomberg's Stacey Vanek Smith pick through a week of confusing economic news on the latest episode of Off the Clock. First up, inflation. Inflation came in at 3.4% — not great, no...
15 Aug 1h 3min
No, the K-shaped Economy Isn't Over | Diving In
The stock market keeps breaking records, but your paycheck doesn't feel like it. In this episode of Diving In, Justin Wolfers explains that disconnect with one number: labor's share of income has fall...
13 Aug 20min
Inflation Is Still High. Just As We Thought. | Diving In
The newest inflation report is out, and Justin Wolfers walks you through what actually matters. Annual inflation is running at 3.4% — well above what the Fed wants, and high enough to explain why the ...
12 Aug 11min
AI's Biggest Problem May Be Its Pace | The Professor Is In
In this bonus-sized episode of The Professor Is In, Justin Wolfers uses a strange, wonderful case study — the collapse of artisanal bootmaking in 1850s England — to think through what AI will do to yo...
8 Aug 35min
The July Jobs Report Should Worry You | Diving In
The July jobs report just dropped, and it's time to worry. Markets expected around 80,000 new jobs — instead, the economy lost 23,000, and revisions to the prior two months erased another 100,000 we t...
7 Aug 17min
How Early Access to Trump’s Truths Will Drain Ordinary Investors | Diving In
Justin unpacks the new $100,000-a-year Truth Social API—a special "pipe" that will allow the president's posts to hit Wall Street computers a second or so before the rest of us see them. In this episo...
6 Aug 10min
What Victorian Bootmakers Can Teach Us About The Future of Work | Diving In
When the CEO of Anthropic warns AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, it's easy to picture the destruction. Justin Wolfers wants you to picture the other half of the story. In t...
5 Aug 13min
