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Optimist Economy

Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi

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Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards and co-host Robin Rauzi talk about the fundamentals of the economy and how to build a better future one problem and solution at a time. Our premise is that the United States has remarkable economy — and yet for tens of millions of Americans it is not performing up to its potential. It could be more open to aspiring workers, less hostile to change, safer for workers, less risky for retirees, and so on.✨ Support the podcast at: optimisteconomy.com ✨Ask questions or s...

Episodes (53)

The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense

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May 5, 202658:12pending

Progress is a Long Game

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Apr 28, 202649:53failed

The Great Wage Stagnation

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Apr 21, 202646:54failed

Tax Reform Gone Wild

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Apr 14, 202645:36failed

Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore

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Apr 7, 202645:49failed

The Optimists Have Questions…

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Mar 31, 202654:24failed

Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too.

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Mar 24, 202642:22failed

If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It

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Mar 17, 202651:21failed

Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.

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Mar 10, 202649:38failed

Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers?

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Mar 3, 202648:48pending

Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities

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Feb 24, 202657:59pending

What The Actual Fed.

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Feb 17, 202652:45pending

We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage.

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Feb 10, 202645:07pending

Affordability vs. the Poverty Line

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Feb 3, 202648:10pending

$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality

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Jan 27, 202649:15pending

We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism

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Jan 20, 20260:55pending

What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?

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Dec 10, 202515:59pending

Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate

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Nov 20, 202553:09pending

Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)

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Oct 21, 202541:28pending

How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs

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Oct 14, 202551:01pending

Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will th...

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Oct 7, 202552:29pending

Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?

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Sep 30, 20251:07:56pending

The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now

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Sep 23, 20251:00:36pending

The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented

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Sep 16, 202549:47pending

The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave

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Sep 9, 202554:37pending

Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy?

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Sep 2, 202554:10pending

Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate

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Aug 26, 202557:37pending

GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy

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Aug 19, 202553:21pending

How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy

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Aug 12, 202559:45pending

What You Don’t Know About Poverty

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Aug 5, 202547:34pending

Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Go...

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Jul 31, 202531:58pending

Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Po...

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Jul 29, 202543:09pending

A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage

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Jul 22, 202558:24pending

Collective Bargaining Without the Unionization Battles

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Jul 15, 202552:31pending

The Tax We’re 99.93% Sure That You Will Never Pay

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Jul 8, 202554:59pending

About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…

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Jul 1, 202555:12pending

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better

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Jun 24, 202550:44pending

Work Requirements Don’t Work

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Jun 17, 202553:44pending

The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?

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Jun 10, 202550:43pending

College Rules! But Student Loans are a Hot Mess!

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Jun 3, 202558:57pending

OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions

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May 27, 202549:34pending

The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Want to Change Diapers

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May 20, 202558:47pending

A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S.

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May 13, 202551:32pending

Progress is a Long Game

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May 6, 202551:04pending

Paid Sick Days for Lady Gaga (and Everyone Else Too)

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Apr 29, 202542:31pending

AI Suggested Five Horrible Titles for This Episode

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Apr 22, 202545:43pending

Work Rules for the Modern World

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Apr 15, 202538:28pending

Robin Loves a Tax Story

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Apr 8, 202533:27pending

Social Security Don’t Miss

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Apr 1, 202552:45pending

Is This a Recession or Not?

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Mar 28, 202547:20pending