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Economics Matters — Highlights from the Past 3.5 Years
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Thanks for making Economics Matters matter. It would be a real bummer if no one was paying attention. But Economics Matters now has 121,555 free, lifetime subscribers.
Your enthusiasm has propelled mine. The Economics Matters archive sports 402 posts and I’m just getting started. You can access all past posts by clicking here.
I love economics. I’m actually addicted. But what I really love is using economics to help people in their everyday lives. That’s why I’ve devoted many of the 402 posts to personal finance and why I’ve been hounding you with ads to use my company’s MaxiFi Planner, which does full, economics-based lifecycle financial planning, including Social Security planning, and Maximize My Social Security, which focuses just on maximizing your lifetime Social Security benefits.
The other posts cover macroeconomic issues, geopolitics, domestic politics, AI, economic history, policy reforms, poetry, religion, the restaurant business, gold mining, … you name it.
As for podcasts, I’ve had a host of fabulous quests, including writers, journalists, economists, business people, a Poet Laureate, a rabbi, investors, personal finance experts, a major father of the digital age, and more.
I list some of my guests below. Again, you can hear from them and many others by clicking here.
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A Sample of Past Economics Matters Podcast Guests
Fred Lane — amazing, storied investor
Holman Jenkins — exceptional WSJ columnist
Peter Coy — amazing former NY Times columnist
Ignazio Visco — brilliant former Governor of the Bank of Italy
Andrew Fesiak — top, on-the-scene Ukraine/Russia expert
David Levy — former head of Moody’s Sovereign Risk Rating
Bill Raduchel — a founding father of our digital age
Richard Eisenberg — exceptional former editor of PBS’ Next Avenue
Peter Fox Penner — leading clean energy expert
Jean Chatzky — famed personal finance journalist
Laurence Leamer — world famous biographer
Anders Åslund — expert on Ukraine, Russia, and the Rest of Eastern Europea
Thorsten Slok — Apollo’s Chief Economist
Terry Savage — famed personal finance journalist
Orlando Patterson — eminent and extraordinary Harvard sociologist
David Barboza — leading China expert
Richard Berner — former Chief Economist Morgan Stanley and financial policy expert
Adam Garfinkle — renowned historian and political scientist
Robert Pinsky — two-time US Poet Laureate
Steve Laffey — the last real republican and an Horatio Alger with a conscience
Martin Wolf — the incredible Financial Times Chief Economics Correspondent
Ariel Rubinstein — preeminent game theorist
John Llewellyn — former Chief Economist Lehman Brothers and global eonsultant
Allison Schrager — leading economics journalist
Liz Weston — the nation’s most read personal finance columnist
Martin Eichenbaum — Northwestern’s outstanding macro economist
George Kinder — storied personal finance guru
Daron Acemoglu — brilliant economics Nobel Prize Laureate
Eduardo Porter — famed Washington Post columnist
Anne Kreuger — preeminent development economist
Lawrence Sulak — Boston University’s world-leading physicist
Eytan Sheshinski — Israel’s most transformative economist
Joe Klein — Storied American political commentator and author
John Ellis — Storied American journalist and news expert
Steve Brown — former off-the-charts CEO of John Hancock
James Conroy — distinguished author and historian
Paul Solman — PBS NewsHour’s Chief Economics Correspondent par excellence
Ernst Fehr — preeminent behavioral economist
Benjamin Friedman — Harvard’s leading macro and political economist
Glenn Loury — captivating economist, author, podcaster, political commentator
Mary Beth Franklin — distinguished personal finance journalist
Harris Goldberg — amazing, screen writer, director, and producer
David Cay Johnston — journalist and author extraordinaire
Howard Tullman — famed entrepreneur and brilliant political commentator
Felipe Larraín — transformative former Finance Minister, Chile
Michael Boskin — amazing former Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Jason Furman — exceptional former Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Sebastian Piñera — beloved former President of Chile
Domingo Cavallo — incredible former Economics Minister of Argentina
Vitor Gaspar — brilliant IMF Director of Fiscal Affairs
Gene Steuerle — genius Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Rabbi Howard Bogot — extraordinary Jewish educator
Amy Finkelstein — outstanding health economist
Edward Leamer — premier econometrician, international trade, and forecaster
Sebastian Edwards — exceptional international economist
Wade Pfau — renowned personal finance economist
Robert Berger — outstanding personal finance analyst and influencer
David Blanchett — brilliant Head of Retirement Research PGIM DC Solutions
Camilla Cavendish — contributing editor and columnist The Financial Times
John Mauldin — storied financial/investment commentator
Uri Dadush — incisive former Director of International Trade, the World Bank
Robert Powell — leading personal finance journalist
Scott Burns — America’s senior and most beloved personal finance columnist
Phil Gramm — trenchant former U.S. Senator
Greg Mankiw — amazing former Chair President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Philip Moeller — trusted journalist, author, Social Security and Medicare expert
Roger Lowenstein — one-of-a-kind, famed author and journalist
Sebastian Mallaby — extraordinary Washington Post columnist
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