# Exploring Prosperity- Challenging Pessimism in the US Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126.md RSS feed: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1594703.rss Official site: https://robertdewey3.substack.com/podcast Author: Bob Dewey Episodes: 64 ## Resource A newsletter about what thought-leaders have to say about our American condition and whether we should be so pessimistic about the future. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126.md ## Episodes - [The AI Masterclass: How ChatGPT and Large Language Models Really Work](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/the-ai-masterclass-how-chatgpt-and-large-language-models-really-work) — 2026-07-18T20:46:45+00:00 - [What If We Solved the Wrong Problem in Education?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/what-if-we-solved-the-wrong-problem-in-education) — 2026-07-06T14:28:56+00:00 - [The AI Paradox: More Information, Less Shared Reality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/the-ai-paradox-more-information-less-shared-reality) — 2026-06-21T21:17:46+00:00 - [The Hidden Challenge of Bringing Crypto to Wall Street](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/the-hidden-challenge-of-bringing-crypto-to-wall-street) — 2026-06-14T01:31:28+00:00 - [What Happens When Everyone Has Institutional Investing Tools?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/what-happens-when-everyone-has-institutional-investing-tools) — 2026-06-07T18:29:02+00:00 - [Can AI Really Go Rogue? Why Today’s AI Fears May Be Overstated](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/can-ai-really-go-rogue-why-today-s-ai-fears-may-be-overstated) — 2026-05-29T19:16:00+00:00 - [Money Is Political | Bitcoin, AI & the Future of Markets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/money-is-political-bitcoin-ai-the-future-of-markets) — 2026-05-26T04:53:00+00:00 - [Are We Running Out of Valuable Problems to Solve?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/are-we-running-out-of-valuable-problems-to-solve) — 2026-05-21T21:23:34+00:00 - [AI Is Rewiring Markets, Energy & Bitcoin | Matthew Sigel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/ai-is-rewiring-markets-energy-bitcoin-matthew-sigel) — 2026-05-10T14:54:26+00:00 - [Is Digital Security Ready for What’s Coming? (Zach Herbert)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/is-digital-security-ready-for-what-s-coming-zach-herbert) — 2026-04-25T19:49:14+00:00 - [Credit Stress Is Back: What Happens When Markets Stop Clearing?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/credit-stress-is-back-what-happens-when-markets-stop-clearing) — 2026-04-19T13:09:42+00:00 - [What AI Can Actually Do — And What It Can’t](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/what-ai-can-actually-do-and-what-it-can-t) — 2026-04-04T07:59:14+00:00 - [Are We Getting Weaker? Hard Money, Harder Virtues](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/are-we-getting-weaker-hard-money-harder-virtues) — 2026-03-27T19:34:35+00:00 - [OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Obligations: Can the Math Work?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/openai-s-trillion-dollar-obligations-can-the-math-work) — 2026-02-20T23:50:38+00:00 - [27 Million Reports: Will Congress Scale Back Financial Surveillance?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/27-million-reports-will-congress-scale-back-financial-surveillance) — 2026-02-09T20:37:53+00:00 - [The One-Hour Problem: How High School Counseling Fails Families](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/the-one-hour-problem-how-high-school-counseling-fails-families) — 2026-01-24T16:21:09+00:00 - [Crypto’s Institutional Reset: Why 2026 Changes Everything | Zach Pandl (Grayscale)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/crypto-s-institutional-reset-why-2026-changes-everything-zach-pandl-grayscale) — 2026-01-19T21:56:44+00:00 - [Growth Without Jobs: AI and the End of the Old Capitalist Bargain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/growth-without-jobs-ai-and-the-end-of-the-old-capitalist-bargain) — 2026-01-19T18:53:13+00:00 - [Inflation Isn’t 3% — Here’s Why the Official Numbers Are Wrong](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/inflation-isn-t-3-here-s-why-the-official-numbers-are-wrong) — 2026-01-09T19:16:40+00:00 - ["It’s a Rigged Game": Larry Lepard on the Moral Case for Bitcoin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/it-s-a-rigged-game-larry-lepard-on-the-moral-case-for-bitcoin) — 2025-12-19T16:21:44+00:00 - [How Schools Can Heal a Generation: Meera Viswanathan on Hope, Learning, and the Social Media Trap](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/how-schools-can-heal-a-generation-meera-viswanathan-on-hope-learning-and-the-social-media-trap) — 2025-12-03T17:51:11+00:00 - [Can America Keep Its AI Advantage?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/can-america-keep-its-ai-advantage) — 2025-11-11T19:06:55+00:00 - [Gold Surges 30% | Lyn Alden, Bob Murphy & Troy Cross on Fiat, Inflation, and Hard Money](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/gold-surges-30-lyn-alden-bob-murphy-troy-cross-on-fiat-inflation-and-hard-money) — 2025-10-26T17:16:18+00:00 - [Uneventful Miracle: The Quiet Triumph Over Infant Mortality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/uneventful-miracle-the-quiet-triumph-over-infant-mortality) — 2025-10-19T17:45:27+00:00 - [Bitcoin's $1.3M Future: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan on US Debt Crisis & Institutional Boom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/bitcoin-s-1-3m-future-bitwise-cio-matt-hougan-on-us-debt-crisis-institutional-boom) — 2025-09-18T16:46:00+00:00 - [80 Years Without World War: How Has Peace Lasted?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-prosperity-challenging-pessimism-in-the-us-6901126/80-years-without-world-war-how-has-peace-lasted) — 2025-09-15T13:43:46+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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