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Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
We are living through a paradigm shift from trickle-down neoliberalism to middle-out economics — a new understanding of who gets what and why. Join zillionaire class-traitor Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers as they explore the latest thinking on how the economy actually works.
Episodes
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why a $15 minimum wage is no longer enough (with Dean Baker)
Ever wondered what the minimum wage would be if it had kept pace with inflation and productivity like it used to? Here’s a hint: $7.25, and even $15.00, don’t…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Did corporate greed break the supply chain? (with Rakeen Mabud)
While many Americans struggle to make ends meet, corporate America’s 2021 profits were higher than ever. So why are corporations making more money while supply…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Free lunch thinking (with Tom Bergin)
Investigative financial analyst Tom Bergin cut his teeth investigating corporate wrongdoing. When he turned his attention to the economics profession, he…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Congress looks to the CBO for economic expertise. Is that a mistake? (with Mark Paul)
The Congressional Budget Office, the institution that furnishes cost-benefit analyses for federal legislation under consideration by Congress, has a really…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Davos Man devours the world (with Peter Goodman)
Billionaires have looted economies, hidden from tax bills, and destabilized democracies for decades. But the subset of billionaires who make a show of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The economics of abortion (with Caitlin Myers)
We often discuss abortion as an issue of bodily autonomy, personal rights, and reproductive justice. Of course it’s all of those things, but it’s also an…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
Nick and Goldy answer your questions! How is any form of union busting legal? Why can’t America be more like the Nordic countries? Is taxing unrealized capital…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
Modern Monetary Theory is an attempt to accurately describe how government debt and complex financial systems actually work and it can help us responsibly use…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The economic case for universal health care (with CA Assemblymember Ash Kalra)
The United States spends far more on healthcare costs than other industrialized countries, yet we continue to have wider gaps of coverage and report worse…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why privatizing public goods is bad for democracy (with Donald Cohen)
Even in the middle of a pandemic, trickle-down politicians still love to claim that the free market is the best way to resolve human problems and that the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ending the tipped minimum wage (with Saru Jayaraman)
In most states, tipped workers are not subject to the minimum wage. Why? Because it’s legal to pay tipped workers a subminimum wage as low as the federal…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Did the Federal Reserve’s policies make inequality worse? (with Christopher Leonard)
When the Federal Reserve makes money, where does it go? Turns out, the Fed’s hands are tied—it can’t do anything other than assume that the new money will…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the radical right weaponized ideology (with Nancy MacLean)
If it seems to you like the ultimate goal of the most extreme conservatives is to undermine democracy and cripple democratic institutions—well, according to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How opportunity zones create windfalls for the uber-rich (with David Wessel)
The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act included a little-known provision establishing something called opportunity zones. The plan, which was lauded as a way to direct…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Are you in the 9.9 percent? (with Matthew Stewart)
In the U.S., inequality is often framed as the 99% versus the wealthiest 1%. But that’s not quite the right matchup. While the bottom 90% has done dramatically…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Moving beyond racial liberalism (with Kyle Strickland)
How can we center the role of race in our economic policy and in our politics in a way that will drive real change? Kyle Strickland, the deputy director of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The hidden costs of banking while poor (with Mehrsa Baradaran and Cate Blackford)
The average family earning $25,000 a year in the U.S. spends about $2,400 on financial transactions. Whether it’s the astronomical interest rates of a payday…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Make the clean stuff cheap (with Eric Beinhocker & Doyne Farmer)
Until very recently, the prevailing wisdom cautioned that transitioning to a clean energy economy would be extremely expensive, and therefore only possible if…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why can’t we talk about homelessness? (with Josephine Ensign)
The number of unhoused Americans is at a historically high rate right now. This podcast is produced in Seattle, a city with the third highest homeless…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with Rana Foroohar and David Dayen)
Every company you can think of has benefitted from a public investment. Whether it’s direct handouts through the tax code, government research efforts, or…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the tax system impoverishes Black Americans (with Dorothy A. Brown)
We know that the tax system is set up to advantage people with money. And we know that in the U.S., people with money are disproportionately white. But what…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The free market economics of synthetic opioids (with Sam Quinones)
The opioid crisis in the United States is a textbook example of free market economics. The powerful lie, manipulate, and skirt regulations to make buckets of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea Hailey)
Behind every aspect of the voting system that makes it harder to vote, there’s a policy that made it that way. Andrea Hailey, the CEO of Vote.org, joins Nick…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty declined last year (with Amy Goldstein and Elliott Morris)
It’s been a little over a month since the unemployment benefits programs that were established by the CARES Act expired, so we’re taking a look at how well…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How corporate concentration hurts the economy (with Stacy Mitchell)
Anti-monopoly and pro-local advocate Stacy Mitchell joins the show to talk about small business, big business, and decentralizing economic power. Stacy…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand Giridharadas)
Few books have shaken the philanthropy world more than ‘Winners Take All’, Anand Giridharadas’s blistering critique of wealthy do-gooders. Global elites who…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Redefining skill (with Nichola Lowe)
Who are the winners and losers in our skill development system? How can we move the onus of skill further into the purview of employers and away from our…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Capitalism is working better in Finland (with Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson)
Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren’t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists—but they pull it off much better than we do. To…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Right-to-work is bad for workers (with Shane Larson)
Right-to-work laws, which make unionizing more difficult in 28 states, could more accurately be referred to as right-to-work… for less. Why? On average, worker…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with James Kwak)
Democrats used to be known as the party of the working people—so how did they get so off track? Who took over the party, and why? Author and professor James…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restaurateur Mark Bucher)
DC restaurateur Mark Bucher explains what’s behind the “labor” shortage (hint: it’s the wages), the role that restaurant owners need to play in stopping the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What convinces people to act in the interest of others? (with Margaret Levi)
What does it take for someone to act in the interest of others? What constitutes trust in general, and trust in government in particular? Margaret Levi, a…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam Tooze)
There have been far more lethal pandemics than Covid-19, but the scale of our response to Covid-19 is dramatically new. For the first time in human history…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Felicia Wong)
Roosevelt Institute President Felicia Wong and writer Hanna Brooks Olsen join Nick and Goldy to explore how the intense burdens of poverty make it nearly…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why is the child tax credit good economic policy? (with Wendy Bach)
Everything you need to know about what the expanded child tax credit actually is, why it’s good policy, and how it will impact people’s lives. Wendy Bach is a…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the credit market drives up housing prices (with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman)
What’s the next generation of access to credit? Why are home prices and rents so out-of-whack with each other? And how can we approach the discord between what…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything, continued!
Is inflation bad? What’s the difference between a neoliberal and a conservative? If large corporations were held to higher labor standards than small…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Everything you need to know about the Frito-Lay Strike (with KS Rep Jason Probst)
Workers at a Frito-Lay factory in Topeka, Kansas made national headlines when they went on strike to protest dismal labor conditions including forced overtime…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
Nick and Goldy answer your questions! If we had progressive taxation, would we still need means testing? Can we send ultra-rich people away to their own…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Fiscal policy can help save the environment (with Sarah Bloom Raskin)
Can we create transformative climate outcomes by adopting new regulatory strategies? Financial regulation expert Sarah Bloom Raskin helps us explore what…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why billionaires are paying no taxes (LIVE from CAP)
Our friends at the Center for American Progress put on a great virtual event last week with Senator Sherrod Brown, discussing how the U.S. tax codes favors the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
We all do better when we all do better (with JP Julien)
Contrary to fears that economic inclusion must come at the expense of economic growth, global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company's research and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Summer Reading List!
It’s Nick and Goldy’s summer reading list! We want to know what you’re reading, too. Let us know on Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics. Remember to shop local and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Post-pandemic booms (with Callum Williams)
Callum Williams from The Economist predicts what we can expect from the economy in the coming months based on past periods of massive non-financial disruption…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol is a trickle-down clown
You probably saw the news that Chipotle is raising its menu prices by 4 percent, and that leadership is blaming the price increase on the fact that they had to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Inequality is bad for everyone (with Djaffar Shalchi)
We’re back to our favorite topic this week—TAX THE RICH! Beyond all the benefits that come from a well-funded social safety net, taxing the wealthy would…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How U.S. policy was designed to suppress wages (with Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens)
Radical and rising economic inequality is no secret — and now, thanks to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, neither is its price tag nor its…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
It’s not a labor shortage, it’s a wage shortage (with Heidi Shierholz)
You have no doubt seen the scary headlines warning of a “labor shortage” caused by the additional pandemic unemployment insurance payments. The coverage of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Your non-compete clause is probably illegal (with WA Attorney General Bob Ferguson)
Non-compete clauses, and the lesser-known no-poach agreements between franchises, are shockingly common for low-wage workers. Although these contracts were…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why we need a mission-driven economy (with Mariana Mazzucato)
What do the internet and COVID vaccines have in common? Neither would be possible without the work of DARPA, a mission-focused federal agency responsible for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Is the economy at a turning point? (with Anusar Farooqui)
Essayist Anusar Farooqui makes the case that we are witnessing the final break from neoliberalism in the United States. Anusar Farooqui writes on Substack as…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can businesses help repair society? (with Ben & Jerry)
Can business leaders use their power and resources to make meaningful change? Should they? Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders behind iconic ice cream…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
There’s no such thing as a race-neutral policy (with Valerie Wilson)
EPI economist Valerie Wilson joins us for a conversation about the economic costs of racism, and which policies could help further racial equality. Valerie…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Diving into March’s giant jobs report (with Austan Goolsbee)
The latest monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed massive gains in March—the strongest in seven months—indicating that economic growth is…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Winning back our freedom from the market (with Mike Konczal)
The relationship between time, work, and freedom has always been a battleground in the American economy. Could our devotion to free-market fundamentalism in…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Andrew Yang interviews Nick!
On his podcast Yang Speaks, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang asks Nick about pervasive economic myths, the next big labor standards fight…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Atlas Hugged (with David Sloan Wilson)
If you’re one of the many people who have asked us to take down the concepts in Atlas Shrugged, which argues that we’re a fundamentally selfish species, this…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can’t stop, won't stop, GameStop (with Congressman Ro Khanna)
When GameStop’s stock skyrocketed early this year, Wall Street was pissed. A group of Redditors had manipulated the stock market—and everyone knows only…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
No, the relief bill won’t cause inflation (with Austan Goolsbee)
This weekend, the Senate passed the coronavirus relief bill—and the House is scheduled to debate the bill, and widely expected to pass it, on the day this…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The idea for a National Investment Authority, explained (with Saule Omarova)
Tackling existential threats to our future like climate change and economic inequality is a huge undertaking, and building the future is going to require…