# Optimist Economy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068.md RSS feed: https://publicfeeds.net/f/14811/feed-rss.xml Official site: https://optimisteconomy.com/ Author: Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi Episodes: 62 ## Resource Optimist Economy is the anti-doomscroll economics podcast. Work rules, tax fairness, healthcare, housing costs, retirement security — the economic forces shaping American life have real problems. But also real solutions. Each week, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards and editor Robin Rauzi break down one problem and solution with data, history, humor, and a belief that tools to build a better economy exist. We just haven't tried them. New episodes on Tuesdays. ✨ Support the podcast at: optimisteconomy.com ✨ Ask questions or share your economic worries with us at: optimist.economy@gmail.com ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/optimist-economy-7257068 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068.md ## Episodes - [Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/simple-immigration-economics-bigger-is-better) — 2026-07-07T08:30:00+00:00 - [America at 250: Case for the Defense](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/america-at-250-case-for-the-defense) — 2026-06-30T08:30:00+00:00 - [Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/optimist-q-a-the-ai-bubble-the-rapture-and-free-lunch) — 2026-06-23T08:30:00+00:00 - [Inflation Risk is the Wrong Recession Lesson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/inflation-risk-is-the-wrong-recession-lesson) — 2026-06-16T08:30:00+00:00 - [Make the Economy Work for Freelancers, Too (#askingforafriend)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/make-the-economy-work-for-freelancers-too-askingforafriend) — 2026-06-09T08:30:00+00:00 - [About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/about-that-college-grad-who-can-t-find-a-job) — 2026-06-02T08:30:00+00:00 - [Should We Cherish the Ultra-Wealthy? (a.k.a. ‘The Cornfield’)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/should-we-cherish-the-ultra-wealthy-a-k-a-the-cornfield) — 2026-05-26T08:30:00+00:00 - [No Overtime for the Supervisor of Sandwiches](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/no-overtime-for-the-supervisor-of-sandwiches) — 2026-05-19T08:30:00+00:00 - [Can the U.S. Go ‘Cashless?’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/can-the-u-s-go-cashless) — 2026-05-12T08:30:00+00:00 - [The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-2026-economy-make-it-make-sense) — 2026-05-05T08:30:00+00:00 - [Progress is a Long Game](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/progress-is-a-long-game) — 2026-04-28T08:30:00+00:00 - [The Great Wage Stagnation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-great-wage-stagnation) — 2026-04-21T08:30:00+00:00 - [Tax Reform Gone Wild](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/tax-reform-gone-wild) — 2026-04-14T08:30:00+00:00 - [Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/nobody-s-pulling-up-stakes-anymore) — 2026-04-07T08:30:00+00:00 - [The Optimists Have Questions…](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-optimists-have-questions) — 2026-03-31T08:30:00+00:00 - [Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/corporate-profits-are-up-their-tax-bill-should-be-too) — 2026-03-24T08:30:00+00:00 - [If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/if-ai-gets-hired-america-can-handle-it) — 2026-03-17T08:30:00+00:00 - [Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/boomers-didn-t-ruin-everything-really) — 2026-03-10T08:30:00+00:00 - [Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/can-1-000-at-birth-make-us-a-country-of-savers) — 2026-03-03T09:30:00+00:00 - [Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/social-security-upgrades-for-retirement-s-realities) — 2026-02-24T09:30:00+00:00 - [What The Actual Fed.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/what-the-actual-fed) — 2026-02-17T09:30:00+00:00 - [We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/we-don-t-have-a-housing-shortage-we-have-a-paycheck-shortage) — 2026-02-10T09:30:00+00:00 - [Affordability vs. the Poverty Line](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/affordability-vs-the-poverty-line) — 2026-02-03T09:30:00+00:00 - [$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/79-trillion-worth-of-income-inequality) — 2026-01-27T09:30:00+00:00 - [We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/we-re-back-with-a-backlog-of-optimism) — 2026-01-20T23:05:00+00:00 - [What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/what-s-the-skinny-on-laws-that-make-salaries-public) — 2025-12-10T11:05:07+00:00 - [Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/thanksgiving-prep-an-optimist-s-guide-to-dinner-table-debate) — 2025-11-20T11:05:06+00:00 - [Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/retcon-on-season-one-executive-orderpalooza) — 2025-10-21T10:10:17+00:00 - [How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/how-health-insurance-got-shackled-to-jobs) — 2025-10-14T10:10:08+00:00 - [Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/optimist-q-a-evidence-for-ubi-what-to-do-about-billionaires-and-where-will-the-u-s-economy-be-after-trump) — 2025-10-07T10:10:07+00:00 - [Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/can-we-fix-america-s-broken-unemployment-insurance-system) — 2025-09-30T10:10:09+00:00 - [The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-ghost-recession-a-brief-economic-history-of-now) — 2025-09-23T10:10:09+00:00 - [The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-cash-for-kids-study-misread-and-misrepresented) — 2025-09-16T10:10:09+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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