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Economics Matters with Laurence Kotlikoff
Economics Matters is a podcast hosted by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, one of the most influential economists in the world, a Global Economics Advisor, NY Times Best Selling Author, President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., and Director of the Fiscal Analysis Center. In each episode, Professor Kotlikoff talks to experts about the power of economics in our modern day society. From personal finance and fiscal policy, to social security and income inequality, Economics Matters delves into…
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Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Man Who Has Covered Every Financial Crisis Says the Next One Is Already Here
Is America’s financial system heading for another crisis, and do our institutions have the will to stop it? Joe Nocera has spent five decades at the center of…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffWhy Africa’s Richest Opportunity Is Being Ignored by Wall Street
What if the biggest investment opportunity in the world is hiding in plain sight, and the reason no one is taking it is fear of the unknown? Theo Kocken spent…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffShe Knew the Social Security Formula at 16. Now She's Warning Washington It Won't Save Itself
What does it mean when one of the country's leading labor economists, a former Obama White House advisor who served as chief economist at the Department of…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Harvard Genius Mapping the Death of the American Dream — Zip Code by Zip Code
What if the single strongest predictor of whether a poor kid rises into the middle class has nothing to do with intelligence, work ethic, or even education…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffDead Men Are Running America's Budget, and Their Policies Are Bankrupting Your Kids
What does it mean when the co-founder of America's premier nonpartisan fiscal policy institution tells you that both parties have systematically abandoned the…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Race Against Time: Can Argentina's Economy Recover Before the Election Kills the Reform?
What if solving Argentina's inflation crisis required nothing more than a single televised announcement — and the government is still not making it? Emilio…
Economics Matters with Laurence Kotlikoff34% of Gen Z Is Gambling Online. They Think It's Investing
What if the single biggest financial threat facing young Americans right now isn't student debt or housing prices, but a $22% credit card rate on one side and…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffIs AI the End of Mathematics, or Its Most Exciting New Beginning?
What does it feel like to watch an AI solve a problem in a single prompt that you've spent years working on, and produce a stronger result than your own…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffYour Medicare Premium Is Rising Twice as Fast as Your Social Security Check — Here's What to Do About It
What if the Medicare premium increases heading your way aren't just a number, they're a signal that the entire system is heading somewhere most retirees aren't…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffWhy Putin Can't Win, China Won't Fold, and Trump Is Running Out of Options
What if the three most dangerous regimes on earth — Russia, China, and Iran — are all weaker than they appear, and yet America is still losing ground to all…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Illiquid Jenga Tower: Inside the Private Credit Timebomb Nobody's Talking About
What if the passive investing revolution (the idea that just buying the index and holding is the smartest thing most people can do) has quietly turned into…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffWhy the Most Important Economic Story of Our Time Isn't the Tariffs — It's the Institutions
What if one of the most famous and widely cited findings in modern economics (that money doesn't really make you happier) turned out to simply be wrong? And…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffSocial Security Is Broke. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Check
The headlines say Social Security is running out of money. But what if the real numbers are actually far worse than what the headlines are showing you, and the…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Man Who Beat Goldman Sachs at Stock Picking — From a Trading Desk in Memphis
What does it actually take to consistently beat the market when 90% of professional fund managers can't, and what is a Wall Street veteran seeing right now…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Man Who Invented the HSA Thinks We're Still Doing Healthcare All Wrong
What if the most powerful tax-advantaged account in your financial life was designed by one economist with a better idea, and the full version of that idea was…
Economics Matters with Laurence Kotlikoff"We're Running a 20th Century Operating System on a 21st Century Economy — And It's Crashing"
What happens when five completely unrelated thinkers, writing across five different decades, all point to the exact same moment in history as a coming crisis…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Man Who Turned Down $1.3 Million to Stay in School — And Changed Medicine Forever
What does it actually take to solve a scientific puzzle that stumped researchers for fifty years — and why are the same AI tools that cracked it still getting…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Regime We Were Supposed to Topple Just Got Stronger
What if everything you've been told about the new Iran deal — and what "winning" the war even meant — is built on a comparison that doesn't hold up, and a…
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The $83 Billion Scam Hidden Inside Medicare (And the Economist Who Proved It)
What if the system designed to protect your health in retirement was actually engineered (from the inside) to profit from keeping you confused, underserved…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffAre Netanyahu's Policies Reshaping Israel For the Better Or Worse?
Can Israel reverse its political and social trajectory as elections approach amid ongoing wars and rising international isolation? Economics Matters co-host…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffAndrew Fesiak's Update on the Ukraine War
Andrew Fesiak rejoins Economics Matters with reassuring news about the war in Ukraine. As I'm traveling in Europe until early June, my son and occasional…
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Economics-Based Financial Planning with Wade Pfau's Retirement Income Institute
This will be of interest to anyone who seeks more money, less risk, and a better life. Wade Pfau is one of our country’s truly exceptional thought leaders when…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffKevin Esler Returns to Build You A TIPS Ladder
Forget what Wall Street says, risky investing is an option, not a starting point when it comes to your financial plan. No investment is perfectly safe and…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFixing Personal Finance With John Campbell
John Campbell has made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics and finance, solved a number of critical problems in both fields, and received all…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffCan the Republican Party Survive the Trump Administration
World-Renowned, Fantastic Economist, and Former CEA Chair, Gregory Mankiw, Discusses his Career, the Iraq War, Trump Policy and Advisers, and His Top Research…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffGlenn Loury on the Country and Race Relations
Glenn is an absolutely brilliant economist and a public intellectual extraordinaire. In addition, Glenn is the pioneer of podcasting by academic economists…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffThe Domestic and Global Impacts of America's Fascist in Chief
Martin Wolf is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded Commander of the British Empire in 2000 "for services to financial…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffWorld Class Economist on the Chances of a Crash in the Near Future
Are we about to have another financial meltdown or at least a major crash? Is this the time to get liquid and stay poised to buy low rather than lose high?…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffAnders Åslund, the Premiere Global Economist, Is Back to Discuss Geopolitics Under Trump
President Trump's interest is largely self interest. According to The NY Times, he has personally pocketed $1.4 billion over the past 12 months. While not…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffIs Brazil Next on Trump's Hit List? Brazilian Economist, Paulo Nogueira Weighs In
Paulo Nogueira Batista is one of Brazil’s most prominent, influential, and instrumental economists. Paulo was vice president of the New Development Bank…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffTop Gov Policy Expert Cliff Winston: "Less Is More" (A Timely Message for Our Dictated Economy)
Ciff Winston is back on Economics Matters. He's also just out with an impressive new book -- Market Corrections NotGovernment Interventions: A Path to Improve…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffTrevor Chandler: The Path to AGI Is Modeling Brains - Not Expanding LLMs
Innovation is the hot sauce of economic progress. Trevor Chandler is one of the hottest inventors on the planet. Whether it's inventing Covid detection masks…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffIs this 1929 All Over Again?
John Llewellyn, Lehman's Former Chief Economist, Head of Independent-Economics, and Leading Global Analyst,Talks Today's and Tomorrow's Geoeconomics and…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffDaniel Shaviro, NYU Professor of Taxation at NYU Law School, and I Discuss Inequality, Optimal Taxation, Tariffs, and Tax Reform
Dan is the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at NYU Law School, is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. Before entering law teaching, he…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffSeth Benzell is Back to Update Us on All things AI
With the leading ten AI companies comprising one third of the value of the S&P and none showing a profit plus the threat they pose to our jobs, let alone…
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Harvard's Brilliant Sociologist, Orlando Patterson, Discusses The Paradox of Freedom
Orlando Patterson is simply mesmerizing. We all take "freedom" for granted. But Orlando has studied what it is and isn't -- now and across the millenia. The…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFred Lane is back with Secrets for Avoiding Your Personal 1929
I'm not a big fan of investment advisors. Economics teaches us that not everyone can beat the market. Yet, there are tens of thousands advisors out there who…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffIs Steve Laffey America's Last Real Republican? Steve's Back to Survey the Wreckage of the Trump Presidency
Steve Laffey is a true American rages-to-riches success story. But Steve took the biblical saying, "to those who have much is owed," fully to heart. After a…
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The Wall Street Journal's Brilliant, Penetrating Columnist, Holman Jenkins, Gives His Take on the Big Issues of Our Times
I've been a huge fan of Holman Jenkins for years. His columns are deeply insightful and fun -- skewering the left and the right in equal measure. I found our…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffTrump's Tariff Mania -- What's Really Going On? Premier Trade Attorney, Irene Chen, Surveys the Minefield
President Trump's on again, off again tariff mania is, well, choose your adjective. From one day to the next, imported products, be they pharmaceuticals…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffAndrew Fesiak -- Live from Ukraine! Update on the War and Trump's Doublecross of Ukraine and NATO
Andrew Fesiak rejoins me on Economics Matters. He addresses these questions and more: Is Russia winning? Is Ukraine Short on Manpower? Is Trump selling out…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffDavid Levey, former Head of Moody's Sovereign Risk Rating Team, Discusses U.S. Fiscal Insolvency
Back in May, Moody's joined the other two major U.S. debt-rating companies, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Group, in downgrading US government debt. No surprise…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFamed Economics Journalist, Peter Coy, Interviews Me About Retirement Mistakes, Economics' vs Wall Street's Fin Planning, Fixing Social Security, and America's Insolvency
Peter Coy has been writing about economics for decades -- for the Associated Press, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. Peter is currently a…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffIgnazio Visco, Former Governor of the Bank of Italy and Premier Economist Discusses Europe's Economic, Demographic, and Technological Challenges
Ignazio Visco is a superb economist and central banker. He should be everyone's choice for the next President of the European Central Bank. Italy has a bad…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFamed Economic Historian, Gregory Clark, Reveals the Industrial Revolution's Secret Sauce
This podcast is not to be missed. Greg Clark is a brilliant economic historian with a remarkable, fact-based take on the role of genetics in economic…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffBill Raduchel -- the Amazing, Unsung Hero of our Digital Age, Past, Present, and Future
I met Bill Raduchel as a grad student at Harvard. He was then and remains today a rare combination of pure genius and utter humility. My interactions with Bill…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffWhat's Really Going on With Social Security? A Conversation With PBS' Premier Financial Journalist -- Richard Eisenberg
When it comes to personal finance journalism, Richard is simply as good as it gets. After I read Richard's Next Avenue column, What the Heck is Going On at…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffPeter Fox Penner Is Back with a Vision of Our Energy Future -- Clean Capital Efficiency
Back in January 2023, Peter Fox Penner appeared on Economics Matters -- the Podcast to discuss his fabulous book, Power After Carbon, Building a Clean…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFamed Personal Finance Journalist and Author, Jean Chatzky, Talks Women and Money
Jean Chatzky is one of America's leading personal finance journalists and authors. Jean and I are long-time buds. I'm delighted to have her on Economics…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffEverything You Need to Know About Trusts With Alan Glassman
As Senator Ernst sweetly reminded us, we're all going to die. But not all of us will be prepared financially to die. Thinking about the afterlife is rather…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffJay Abolofia Demo's MaxiFi's New Powerful Tools For Estate Planning
Economics PhD, CFP, President of Lyon Financial Planning, Jay Abolofia shows you how to do estate planning using MaxiFi Planner's new spending cap and other…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffLarry Leamer on Andy Warhol's Coterie of Female Victims and Whether America's Top-Selling Artist's Work Is Worth their Canvases
I've known Larry Leamer forever thanks to my close friendship with Larry's recently departed, economist extraordinaire, brother -- Edward Leamer. Ed wasn't…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffBrilliant, Renowned Investor, Fred Lane, Discusses Hedging and Avoiding Trump Tariff Mayhem in your Portfolio
This is Fred's third appearance on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. I wanted to get Fred back on asap as part of my ongoing quest to keep people financially…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffAnders Åslund, Everyone's Go-To Economist on Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Global Economy, Surveys America's Betrayals, Foreign and Domestic
I'm just delighted to have Anders Åslund on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. I met Anders in the late 1990s when he asked me to go with him to Russia to…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffFormer Airforce Pilots, Mark and Kara Brandt, Talk Flying the U-2 and C-5, Flying for United, and Landing their Finances With MaxiFi
Mark and Kara are a 50-50 combination of Top Gun and The Right Stuff. Mark was chosen by the Airforce to fly the U-2 Spy Plane -- at 72,000 feet, in a space…
Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffApollo's Chief Economist, Torsten Slok, Estimates a 90 Percent Odds of Recession
The markets are going nuts for a good reason. The Administration is taking, at random, three steps backwards and 1 step forward on a wide range of issues…
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David Barboza
David Barboza, a Brilliant, Informed, and Thoughtful China Expert, Discusses U.S.-China Relations. The Relationship has gone from Distant to Close and Now to…
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Rudiger Bachmann
Trump, the German View. A Discussion with Rüdiger Bachmann, One of Germany's Most Influential Economists and Public Intellectuals
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Richard Berner
Is Musk-Trump's Evisceration of Financial Oversight Sheer Lunacy? Richard Berner, NYU Professor of Finance, Former First Director of the Treasury's Office of…
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Terry Savage and Larry Discuss Roth Conversions
Terry Savage, our Nation's Brilliant Personal Finance Guru, Returns to Economics Matters to Discuss Roth Conversions