Optimist Economy
Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi
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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Progress is a Long Game
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The Great Wage Stagnation
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Tax Reform Gone Wild
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Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore
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The Optimists Have Questions…
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Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too.
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If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It
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Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.
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Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers?
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Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities
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What The Actual Fed.
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We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage.
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Affordability vs. the Poverty Line
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$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality
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We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism
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What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?
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Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate
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Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)
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How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs
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Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will th...
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Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?
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The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now
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The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented
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The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave
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Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy?
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Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate
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GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy
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How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy
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What You Don’t Know About Poverty
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Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Go...
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Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Po...
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A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage
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Collective Bargaining Without the Unionization Battles
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The Tax We’re 99.93% Sure That You Will Never Pay
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About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…
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Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better
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Work Requirements Don’t Work
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The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?
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College Rules! But Student Loans are a Hot Mess!
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OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions
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The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Want to Change Diapers
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A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S.
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Progress is a Long Game
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Paid Sick Days for Lady Gaga (and Everyone Else Too)
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AI Suggested Five Horrible Titles for This Episode
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Work Rules for the Modern World
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Robin Loves a Tax Story
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Social Security Don’t Miss
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Is This a Recession or Not?
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