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
Economics Is Not a Subject — It's a Toolkit | Economics Matters
This is a conversation between Justin and Larry Kotlikoff, fellow economist and host of the Economics Matters podcast. And it was a fun one, in which Larry encouraged Justin to look both backwards and...
4 Aug 1h 10min
Tariffs, Take Three: The Dumbest Round Yet | Off the Clock
Justin and Stacey are back for Off the Clock — helping you figure out what economic news to actually worry about, what you can safely ignore, and where to find some silver linings. This week was a big...
2 Aug 50min
How SNAP's New Rules Make Eligible Families Go Hungry | The Professor Is In
Recent changes to SNAP quietly cut food assistance from 4 million Americans — 1.5 million of them children (plus elderly, disabled, and other eligible recipients who were never the intended target). I...
1 Aug 18min
The Lawyer’s Theory of Trade | Diving In
Donald Trump's trade representative Jamison Greer thinks about trade like a litigator: clients, injuries, bad actors, and remedies. Justin Wolfers takes Greer's own words from his recent interview wit...
29 Juli 21min
Should Canada answer Trump's tariffs? | The Professor Is In
In this episode of The Professor Is In, Justin Wolfers digs into the latest tariffs on Canada, answering subscriber questions and responding to comments from his earlier Diving In He addresses the sus...
25 Juli 21min
