Moving beyond racial liberalism (with Kyle Strickland)
How can we center the role of race in our economic policy and in our politics in a way that will drive real change? Kyle Strickland, the deputy director of race and democracy at the Roosevelt Institut...
14 Dec 202128min
The hidden costs of banking while poor (with Mehrsa Baradaran and Cate Blackford)
The average family earning $25,000 a year in the U.S. spends about $2,400 on financial transactions. Whether it’s the astronomical interest rates of a payday loan or the costs that come with being unb...
7 Dec 202157min
Make the clean stuff cheap (with Eric Beinhocker & Doyne Farmer)
Until very recently, the prevailing wisdom cautioned that transitioning to a clean energy economy would be extremely expensive, and therefore only possible if undertaken slowly. New research upends th...
30 Nov 202136min
Why can’t we talk about homelessness? (with Josephine Ensign)
The number of unhoused Americans is at a historically high rate right now. This podcast is produced in Seattle, a city with the third highest homeless population in the U.S. Though many Seattleites id...
23 Nov 202133min
How taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with Rana Foroohar and David Dayen)
Every company you can think of has benefitted from a public investment. Whether it’s direct handouts through the tax code, government research efforts, or employee reliance on programs like EITC or TA...
16 Nov 202156min
How the tax system impoverishes Black Americans (with Dorothy A. Brown)
We know that the tax system is set up to advantage people with money. And we know that in the U.S., people with money are disproportionately white. But what many people don’t realize is that the tax s...
9 Nov 202129min
The free market economics of synthetic opioids (with Sam Quinones)
The opioid crisis in the United States is a textbook example of free market economics. The powerful lie, manipulate, and skirt regulations to make buckets of money, while innocent people suffer. Journ...
2 Nov 202139min
How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea Hailey)
Behind every aspect of the voting system that makes it harder to vote, there’s a policy that made it that way. Andrea Hailey, the CEO of Vote.org, joins Nick and Goldy to explain how voter suppression...
26 Okt 202135min
