Is this a winning US economy for the Democrats? With Jared Bernstein
Jared Bernstein is the chair of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. Today on the show, Soumaya gets to put him in the hot seat. She grills him about everything from price caps to inflation...
16 Sep 202426min
Do price controls really help with inflation? With Isabella Weber
When presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposed legislation to ban price gouging, we naturally thought to interview Isabella Weber, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
9 Sep 202433min
Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu
Daron Acemoğlu is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Today on the show...
2 Sep 202430min
Who is winning the chip wars? With Chris Miller
Computer chips power toys and control nuclear reactors. They are in phones, cars and planes, getting us to work and keeping us safe. And they are at the centre of a growing tech war between the US and...
26 Aug 202433min
How much cash would it take to quit your job? With Pilita Clark and Mouhcine Guettabi
How much would it take for you to retire? The question is fun to think about, but also central to a serious conversation happening in economics about the cost and wisdom of a universal basic income. T...
19 Aug 202432min
The case for holding rates, with Catherine Mann
Recent events, including a weak US jobs report, a pullback in Japan, and volatility in US markets have made life trickier for central bankers around the world. In the UK, moderating inflation led the ...
12 Aug 202431min
Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles
A recently released research paper calls into question many of the assumptions about the rate at which income inequality has grown in the US over the past 75 years. Today on the show, Soumaya and the ...
5 Aug 202431min
What happens when manufacturing goes away? With Amy Goldstein
The GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, closed during the financial crisis in 2008, ending decades of production – and 3,000 steady, highly paid jobs. Journalist Amy Goldstein wrote about the town as t...
29 Juli 202430min
