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Sports Betting Is This Generation's Big Tobacco
Optimist Economy · Nov 3, 2026
Immigration Economics Part II: Smaller is Worse
Optimist Economy · Oct 27, 2026
Americans Feel Awful About the Economy
Optimist Economy · Oct 20, 2026
The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?
Optimist Economy · Sep 1, 2026
Stop Donating Your Vacation Days to Your Boss
Optimist Economy · Aug 4, 2026
The Government is Already Paying for Your Health Insurance, Buddy
Optimist Economy · Jul 28, 2026
Mr. Justin Time Sets a Cruel Work Schedule
Optimist Economy · Jul 21, 2026
Young Americans Should Be Raising Hell About Social Security
Optimist Economy · Jul 14, 2026
Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better
Optimist Economy · Jul 7, 2026
America at 250: Case for the Defense
Optimist Economy · Jun 30, 2026
Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch
Optimist Economy · Jun 23, 2026
Inflation Risk is the Wrong Recession Lesson
Optimist Economy · Jun 16, 2026
Make the Economy Work for Freelancers, Too (#askingforafriend)
Optimist Economy · Jun 9, 2026
About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…
Optimist Economy · Jun 2, 2026
Should We Cherish the Ultra-Wealthy? (a.k.a. ‘The Cornfield’)
Optimist Economy · May 26, 2026
No Overtime for the Supervisor of Sandwiches
Optimist Economy · May 19, 2026
Can the U.S. Go ‘Cashless?’
Optimist Economy · May 12, 2026
The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense
Optimist Economy · May 5, 2026
Progress is a Long Game
Optimist Economy · Apr 28, 2026
The Great Wage Stagnation
Optimist Economy · Apr 21, 2026
Tax Reform Gone Wild
Optimist Economy · Apr 14, 2026
Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore
Optimist Economy · Apr 7, 2026
The Optimists Have Questions…
Optimist Economy · Mar 31, 2026
Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too.
Optimist Economy · Mar 24, 2026
If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It
Optimist Economy · Mar 17, 2026
Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.
Optimist Economy · Mar 10, 2026
Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers?
Optimist Economy · Mar 3, 2026
Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities
Optimist Economy · Feb 24, 2026
What The Actual Fed.
Optimist Economy · Feb 17, 2026
We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage.
Optimist Economy · Feb 10, 2026
Affordability vs. the Poverty Line
Optimist Economy · Feb 3, 2026
$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality
Optimist Economy · Jan 27, 2026
We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism
Optimist Economy · Jan 20, 2026
What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?
Optimist Economy · Dec 10, 2025
Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate
Optimist Economy · Nov 20, 2025
Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)
Optimist Economy · Oct 21, 2025
How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs
Optimist Economy · Oct 14, 2025
Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump?
Optimist Economy · Oct 7, 2025
Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?
Optimist Economy · Sep 30, 2025
The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now
Optimist Economy · Sep 23, 2025
The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented
Optimist Economy · Sep 16, 2025
The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave
Optimist Economy · Sep 9, 2025
Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy?
Optimist Economy · Sep 2, 2025
Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate
Optimist Economy · Aug 26, 2025
GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy
Optimist Economy · Aug 19, 2025
How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy
Optimist Economy · Aug 12, 2025
What You Don’t Know About Poverty
Optimist Economy · Aug 5, 2025
Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Government ROI
Optimist Economy · Jul 31, 2025
Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Poverty and More
Optimist Economy · Jul 29, 2025
A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage
Optimist Economy · Jul 22, 2025