# goldies (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover goldies. Page: Feed: --- ## The Joy of Money (with Carrie Joy Grimes) _2026-08-18 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ Most personal finance advice starts with the same basic premise: you’re doing money wrong. But Carrie Joy Grimes, founder of WorkMoney and author of The Joy of Money, says that misses half the story. Yes, people need real tools to budget, save, pay down debt, and plan for the future. But no amount of discipline can fix an economy where wages are too low, costs are too high, and working people have… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC7097071319.mp3) ## What Happened to Liberal Democracy (with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu) _2026-08-11 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ Nobel Prize-winning MIT economist Daron Acemoglu joins Nick and Goldy to discuss his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. They explore why so many people have lost faith in democracy, how inequality and weakened worker power have reshaped politics, and why democracy has to deliver in people’s daily lives. They also dig into AI, automation, and… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC4654012278.mp3) ## What Happens When the Other Washington Stops Enforcing Antitrust? (with WA State Attorney General Nick Brown) _2026-08-04 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ Paramount Skydance wants to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that would put even more of Hollywood—and two major newsrooms—under one corporate roof. Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown joins Nick and Goldy to explain why a coalition of states is suing to stop it, how they forced Paramount to pause the merger, and why state attorneys general are increasingly… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC3203416748.mp3) ## The Good Life Economy (with Elizabeth Wilkins) _2026-07-28 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ What is the economy for — GDP, corporate profits, or people? This week, Nick and Goldy talk with Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, about Roosevelt’s new Good Life Agenda and why so many old assumptions about markets, government, and growth are suddenly up for grabs. It’s a conversation about human flourishing, public power, and what democracy has to deliver if people… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC4895889909.mp3) ## Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Productivity Doesn’t Trickle Down (with Preston Mui) _2026-07-21 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ Some of the world’s richest executives are selling AI as the engine of a yet-to-be realized “historic” productivity boom — while warning that it will also eliminate millions of jobs. But if workers absorb the disruption while the gains flow upward, that isn’t shared prosperity. It’s trickle-down economics with better software. In the final installment of Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC5104689068.mp3) ## Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Austerity Politics (with Clara Mattei) _2026-07-14 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that austerity is responsible economic policy. We’re revisiting this conversation now because the austerity playbook is still very much alive. The Trump administration and DOGE have cut federal agencies, pushed out public servants, and treated public infrastructure like waste — even though… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC5923071305.mp3) ## Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Zombie Economics (with Paul Krugman) _2026-07-07 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that bad economic ideas die once the evidence proves them wrong. They don’t. They come back as zombie ideas: tax cuts for the rich sold as growth policy, safety-net cuts sold as responsibility, and market fundamentalism sold as common sense. These ideas have failed again and again, but they… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC7676170065.mp3) ## Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Shareholder Value (with William Lazonick and Lenore Palladino) _2026-06-30 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that corporations exist to maximize shareholder value. For decades, Americans were sold the idea that if corporations focused on boosting stock prices and rewarding shareholders, prosperity would trickle down to workers, consumers, and communities. Instead, shareholder primacy helped justify… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC7705172968.mp3) ## Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Regulations Kill Growth (with Robert Reich) _2026-06-23 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ This week, we’re kicking off our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with one of the most persistent myths in American politics: that regulation kills growth. Corporate lobbyists and trickle-down evangelists have spent decades branding any rule that limits big business as a “job killer.” But what if good regulation isn’t the enemy of prosperity, but one of the things that… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC1437443523.mp3) ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SNzlHtTYnvkn) _2026-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## AI Job Loss Is Real. The Catastrophe Is Optional (with Kathryn Edwards) _2026-06-16 · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer_ AI doomsdayers want us to believe mass job loss would be unprecedented. But Kathryn Anne Edwards has a sharp reminder: In the first five weeks of the pandemic, the U.S. economy shed 22.5 million jobs—larger than any single AI job-loss estimate she has seen. The difference was policy. Unemployment support, direct cash to families, and a strong public response helped workers survive the shock and… [Listen](https://chrt.fm/track/28EG51/traffic.megaphone.fm/PCHEC7546207273.mp3)