
288. What actually moves the economy (and why it matters to you) with Evan Lucas Part 1
Most of us only think about the economy when something's gone wrong, and according to economist Evan Lucas, that's by design. In part one of a four-part series, Ana sits down with the author of Mind Over Money to go right back to first principles: what an economy actually is, how we measure it, and why the whole thing behaves more like a circle than a straight line. No jargon, no judgement, just the questions you'd never ask at a dinner party.
In this episode we'll discuss:
💸 What an economy is actually for, and the "Goldilocks" conditions (2 to 3% growth, ~2% inflation, a neutral cash rate)…
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