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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Worker	Optimist Economy	41:55
Sports Betting Is This Generation's Big Tobacco	Optimist Economy	48:05
Immigration Economics Part II: Smaller is Worse	Optimist Economy	41:21
Americans Feel Awful About the Economy	Optimist Economy	48:19
The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?	Optimist Economy	51:44
Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising: The Invitation (Ep. 1)	Optimist Economy	38:07
Stop Donating Your Vacation Days to Your Boss	Optimist Economy	50:20
The Government is Already Paying for Your Health Insurance, Buddy	Optimist Economy	48:19
Mr. Justin Time Sets a Cruel Work Schedule	Optimist Economy	48:39
Young Americans Should Be Raising Hell About Social Security	Optimist Economy	44:08
Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better	Optimist Economy	52:06
America at 250: Case for the Defense	Optimist Economy	52:37
Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch	Optimist Economy	52:18
Inflation Risk is the Wrong Recession Lesson	Optimist Economy	49:38
Make the Economy Work for Freelancers, Too (#askingforafriend)	Optimist Economy	48:09
About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…	Optimist Economy	58:49
Should We Cherish the Ultra-Wealthy? (a.k.a. ‘The Cornfield’)	Optimist Economy	42:35
No Overtime for the Supervisor of Sandwiches	Optimist Economy	48:53
Can the U.S. Go ‘Cashless?’	Optimist Economy	44:19
The 2026 Economy: Make it Make Sense	Optimist Economy	58:12
Progress is a Long Game	Optimist Economy	49:53
The Great Wage Stagnation	Optimist Economy	46:54
Tax Reform Gone Wild	Optimist Economy	45:36
Nobody's Pulling Up Stakes Anymore	Optimist Economy	45:49
The Optimists Have Questions…	Optimist Economy	54:24
Corporate Profits Are Up. Their Tax Bill Should Be Too.	Optimist Economy	42:22
If AI Gets Hired, America Can Handle It	Optimist Economy	51:21
Boomers Didn’t Ruin Everything. Really.	Optimist Economy	49:38
Can $1,000 at Birth Make Us a Country of Savers?	Optimist Economy	48:48
Social Security Upgrades for Retirement's Realities	Optimist Economy	57:59
What The Actual Fed.	Optimist Economy	52:45
We Don't Have a Housing Shortage. We Have a Paycheck Shortage.	Optimist Economy	45:07
Affordability vs. the Poverty Line	Optimist Economy	48:10
$79 Trillion Worth of Income Inequality	Optimist Economy	49:15
We're Back with a Backlog of Optimism	Optimist Economy	00:55
What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?	Optimist Economy	15:59
Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate	Optimist Economy	53:09
Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)	Optimist Economy	41:28
How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs	Optimist Economy	51:01
Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump?	Optimist Economy	52:29

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Worker

Optimist Economy

41:55

Sports Betting Is This Generation's Big Tobacco

Optimist Economy

48:05

Immigration Economics Part II: Smaller is Worse

Optimist Economy

41:21

Americans Feel Awful About the Economy

Optimist Economy

48:19