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Sports Betting Is This Generation's Big Tobacco
Nov 3, 2026
Immigration Economics Part II: Smaller is Worse
Oct 27, 2026
Americans Feel Awful About the Economy
Oct 20, 2026
The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?
Sep 1, 2026
Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising: The Invitation (Ep. 1)
Aug 11, 2026
Stop Donating Your Vacation Days to Your Boss

Aug 4, 2026

The Government is Already Paying for Your Health Insurance, Buddy

Jul 28, 2026

Mr. Justin Time Sets a Cruel Work Schedule

Jul 21, 2026

Young Americans Should Be Raising Hell About Social Security

Jul 14, 2026

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better

Jul 7, 2026

America at 250: Case for the Defense

Jun 30, 2026

Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch

Jun 23, 2026

Inflation Risk is the Wrong Recession Lesson

Jun 16, 2026

Make the Economy Work for Freelancers, Too (#askingforafriend)

Jun 9, 2026

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

Jun 2, 2026

Should We Cherish the Ultra-Wealthy? (a.k.a. ‘The Cornfield’)

May 26, 2026

No Overtime for the Supervisor of Sandwiches

May 19, 2026

Can the U.S. Go ‘Cashless?’

May 12, 2026

The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense

May 5, 2026

Progress is a Long Game

Apr 28, 2026

The Great Wage Stagnation

Apr 21, 2026

Tax Reform Gone Wild

Apr 14, 2026

Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore

Apr 7, 2026

The Optimists Have Questions…

Mar 31, 2026

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

Mar 24, 2026

If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It

Mar 17, 2026

Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.

Mar 10, 2026

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

Mar 3, 2026

Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities

Feb 24, 2026

What The Actual Fed.

Feb 17, 2026

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

Feb 10, 2026

Affordability vs. the Poverty Line

Feb 3, 2026

$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality

Jan 27, 2026

We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism

Jan 20, 2026

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

Dec 10, 2025

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

Nov 20, 2025

Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)

Oct 21, 2025

How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs

Oct 14, 2025

Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump?

Oct 7, 2025

Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?

Sep 30, 2025

The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now

Sep 23, 2025

The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented

Sep 16, 2025

The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave

Sep 9, 2025

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

Sep 2, 2025

Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate

Aug 26, 2025

GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy

Aug 19, 2025

How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy

Aug 12, 2025

What You Don’t Know About Poverty

Aug 5, 2025

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

Jul 31, 2025

Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Poverty and More

Jul 29, 2025