Economics Matters with Laurence Kotlikoff
Economics Matters is a podcast hosted by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, a prominent economist, author, and policy advisor. In each episode, he talks with experts about how economics influences modern society, covering topics such as personal finance, fiscal policy, social security, and income inequality. The show explores pressing economic challenges and aims to make complex issues accessible to listeners.
Episodes
Why Africa’s Richest Opportunity Is Being Ignored by Wall Street
What if the biggest investment opportunity in the world is hiding in plain sight, and the reason no one is taking it is fear of the unknown?Theo Kocken spent two decades building Cardano into one of Europe’s most respected pension risk management firms. Then he walked away to fix something bigger: the broken financial infrastructure keeping billions of people in low-income countries from accessing
She Knew the Social Security Formula at 16. Now She's Warning Washington It Won't Save Itself
What does it mean when one of the country's leading labor economists, a former Obama White House advisor who served as chief economist at the Department of Labor, tells you that Washington's bet on AI saving Social Security is built on a foundation of wishful thinking, and that the real numbers have been pointing toward crisis since 2017?Betsey Stevenson studied physics at Wellesley, switc
The Harvard Genius Mapping the Death of the American Dream — Zip Code by Zip Code
What if the single strongest predictor of whether a poor kid rises into the middle class has nothing to do with intelligence, work ethic, or even education, and everything to do with who happens to be in their classroom in third grade?Raj Chetty grew up in New Delhi, came to the US in fourth grade, emailed 15 Harvard professors his first week on campus, was working as a research assistant for Mart
Dead Men Are Running America's Budget, and Their Policies Are Bankrupting Your Kids
What does it mean when the co-founder of America's premier nonpartisan fiscal policy institution tells you that both parties have systematically abandoned the working class, the young, and the American Dream. Not by accident, but by design?Eugene Steuerle co-founded the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam, taught himself economics via correspondence course while
The Race Against Time: Can Argentina's Economy Recover Before the Election Kills the Reform?
What if solving Argentina's inflation crisis required nothing more than a single televised announcement — and the government is still not making it?Emilio Ocampo advised President Milei during his 2023 presidential campaign, spent decades as a managing director at Morgan Stanley, and has spent the better part of his career making the case for Argentina to do the one thing almost everyone agree
34% of Gen Z Is Gambling Online. They Think It's Investing
What if the single biggest financial threat facing young Americans right now isn't student debt or housing prices, but a $22% credit card rate on one side and an online gambling habit disguised as investing on the other?Beth Kobliner has been writing about personal finance since she ghostwrote Sylvia Porter's syndicated column at age 22. She spent eight years at Money Magazine, appeared wi
Is AI the End of Mathematics, or Its Most Exciting New Beginning?
What does it feel like to watch an AI solve a problem in a single prompt that you've spent years working on, and produce a stronger result than your own published papers?Professor Kotlikoff grew up academically alongside two economists, Yuri Dadush and Michael Pomerleano, who were his classmates when he began his PhD at Harvard in 1973. In this episode, he sits down with their sons: Daniel Dad
Your Medicare Premium Is Rising Twice as Fast as Your Social Security Check — Here's What to Do About It
What if the Medicare premium increases heading your way aren't just a number, they're a signal that the entire system is heading somewhere most retirees aren't prepared for?Phil Moeller has co-written a New York Times bestseller on Social Security, authored the definitive consumer guide to Medicare, and spent decades covering personal finance for US News, PBS NewsHour, and Money Magazi
Why Putin Can't Win, China Won't Fold, and Trump Is Running Out of Options
What if the three most dangerous regimes on earth — Russia, China, and Iran — are all weaker than they appear, and yet America is still losing ground to all three at once?Sir Niall Ferguson has spent a career studying how empires rise, overreach, and fall. He watched the Soviet Union collapse from the inside out while everyone in Washington assumed it would last forever. He's been warning about Ch
The Illiquid Jenga Tower: Inside the Private Credit Timebomb Nobody's Talking About
What if the passive investing revolution (the idea that just buying the index and holding is the smartest thing most people can do) has quietly turned into something that no longer resembles the efficient market it was designed to track?Every month, $33 billion flows automatically from 401(k) contributions into U.S. equity index funds. That money doesn't stop to ask whether Nvidia is fairly va
Why the Most Important Economic Story of Our Time Isn't the Tariffs — It's the Institutions
What if one of the most famous and widely cited findings in modern economics (that money doesn't really make you happier) turned out to simply be wrong? And what does the economist who proved it wrong have to say about where America is heading next?Justin Wolfers is not a typical economist. He's written landmark papers on happiness, divorce, racial discrimination in NBA officiating, corrup
Social Security Is Broke. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Check
The headlines say Social Security is running out of money. But what if the real numbers are actually far worse than what the headlines are showing you, and the trustees' report is burying the truth in an appendix table that almost nobody reads?The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report just dropped, and the media coverage has been loud, alarming, and, still understating how serious the problem a
The Man Who Beat Goldman Sachs at Stock Picking — From a Trading Desk in Memphis
What does it actually take to consistently beat the market when 90% of professional fund managers can't, and what is a Wall Street veteran seeing right now that has him warning ordinary investors to get off margin immediately?Steve Laffey has lived several lives in one. Raised in genuine poverty in Cranston, Rhode Island, he earned his way to Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School, landed
The Man Who Invented the HSA Thinks We're Still Doing Healthcare All Wrong
What if the most powerful tax-advantaged account in your financial life was designed by one economist with a better idea, and the full version of that idea was never actually implemented?You've probably heard of the Health Savings Account. You may even have one. But the man who invented it says the version Congress passed is a watered-down shadow of what it could be. And that's just the be
"We're Running a 20th Century Operating System on a 21st Century Economy — And It's Crashing"
What happens when five completely unrelated thinkers, writing across five different decades, all point to the exact same moment in history as a coming crisis point...and that moment is now?Samuel Huntington, Neil Howe, Ray Dalio, George Friedman, and Peter Turchin never collaborated. All of them landed on the 2020s. In this episode, Larry Kotlikoff sits down with Bruce Mehlman — founder of Mehlman
The Man Who Turned Down $1.3 Million to Stay in School — And Changed Medicine Forever
What does it actually take to solve a scientific puzzle that stumped researchers for fifty years — and why are the same AI tools that cracked it still getting basic financial math catastrophically wrong?In 2024, Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for something that sounds almost too ambitious to be real: teaching artificial intelligence to predict the three-dimensional shape of any pr
The Regime We Were Supposed to Topple Just Got Stronger
What if everything you've been told about the new Iran deal — and what "winning" the war even meant — is built on a comparison that doesn't hold up, and a strategic outcome that's the opposite of what most commentators are claiming?A 14-point memorandum is about to be signed in Switzerland, and the headlines are already calling it weaker than the 2015 Obama-era nuclear deal t
The $83 Billion Scam Hidden Inside Medicare (And the Economist Who Proved It)
What if the system designed to protect your health in retirement was actually engineered (from the inside) to profit from keeping you confused, underserved, and locked out of the care you've already paid for?You've spent decades paying into Medicare. You've done everything right. And yet, as you approach the years when healthcare matters most, the system greeting you on the other side
Are Netanyahu's Policies Reshaping Israel For the Better Or Worse?
Can Israel reverse its political and social trajectory as elections approach amid ongoing wars and rising international isolation? Economics Matters co-host, Alex Kotlikoff, reunites with Israel's most influential and consequential economist, Eytan Sheshinski, to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure and the impact of his right-wing coalition. The discussion ranges over Israeli domestic pol
Andrew Fesiak's Update on the Ukraine War
Andrew Fesiak rejoins Economics Matters with reassuring news about the war in Ukraine. As I'm traveling in Europe until early June, my son and occasional co-host, Alex, interviews Andrew. This is Andrew's 6th appearance on Economics Matters. He is, as ever, fully up-to-date on what's happening for real in Ukraine. Indeed, our military and everyone in the Administration, particularly the President
Economics-Based Financial Planning with Wade Pfau's Retirement Income Institute
This will be of interest to anyone who seeks more money, less risk, and a better life. Wade Pfau is one of our country’s truly exceptional thought leaders when it comes to personal finance. He holds a PhD in economics from Princeton as well as the CFA and RICP® designations. Wade is a professor of practice in the Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) Program at The American College of
Kevin Esler Returns to Build You A TIPS Ladder
Forget what Wall Street says, risky investing is an option, not a starting point when it comes to your financial plan. No investment is perfectly safe and Economics Matters does not provide investment or any other form of financial, tax, or insurance advice. What this blog and podcast do is discuss options. Because TIPS -- Treasury Inflation Protected Securities -- are U.S. Treasury bonds, but one
Fixing Personal Finance With John Campbell
John Campbell has made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics and finance, solved a number of critical problems in both fields, and received all manner of fully deserved top awards in economics and finance. Grab a copy of his outstanding new, co-authored book, Fixed. It will turn your stomach, but keep you safe from Wall Street's terrible financial predation. He is the Morton L.
Can the Republican Party Survive the Trump Administration
World-Renowned, Fantastic Economist, and Former CEA Chair, Gregory Mankiw, Discusses his Career, the Iraq War, Trump Policy and Advisers, and His Top Research HitsGreg may be the world's most influential economist as millions of students, in the US and abroad, have studied introductory economics and intermediate macroeconomics using his leading text books. He's also been a major US policy
Glenn Loury on the Country and Race Relations
Glenn is an absolutely brilliant economist and a public intellectual extraordinaire. In addition, Glenn is the pioneer of podcasting by academic economists. Glenn's remarkable podcast -- The Glenn Show -- debuted in 2008. In this episode of Economics Matters -- the Podcast, I ask Glenn to talk about the Glenn Show, including the topics and guests he's had during the show's now almost t
The Domestic and Global Impacts of America's Fascist in Chief
Martin Wolf is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded Commander of the British Empire in 2000 "for services to financial journalism". This is Martin's third appearance on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. Martin's 2023 book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, warned that liberal democracy was in recession, with authoritarianism on the rise. T
World Class Economist on the Chances of a Crash in the Near Future
Are we about to have another financial meltdown or at least a major crash? Is this the time to get liquid and stay poised to buy low rather than lose high? Please let one of the world's top financial guru's, John Rutledge, provide his deeply informed sense of the current financial system. John focuses on times the economy is out of wack -- far from equilibrium is his language. He is Chief
Anders Åslund, the Premiere Global Economist, Is Back to Discuss Geopolitics Under Trump
President Trump's interest is largely self interest. According to The NY Times, he has personally pocketed $1.4 billion over the past 12 months. While not stuffing his pockets and those of his family, he has transformed our "shining city upon a hill" into a quasi-fascist state, sold out our allies, upended the rule of law, deployed a private army that murders American citizens in bro
Is Brazil Next on Trump's Hit List? Brazilian Economist, Paulo Nogueira Weighs In
Paulo Nogueira Batista is one of Brazil’s most prominent, influential, and instrumental economists. Paulo was vice president of the New Development Bank, established by the BRICS in Shanghai, from 2015 to 2017, and Executive Director at the IMF for Brazil and 10 other countries in Washington, from 2007 through 2015. Paulo, as you'll hear/see, and as his bio clearly documents, is a sober, soph
Top Gov Policy Expert Cliff Winston: "Less Is More" (A Timely Message for Our Dictated Economy)
Ciff Winston is back on Economics Matters. He's also just out with an impressive new book -- Market Corrections NotGovernment Interventions: A Path to Improve the US Economy. The book is a devastating critique of government policy failures -- policies that the private sector had to ultimately overcome or sidestep. Cliff joins us precisely one year after our podcast on Biden's infrastructur
Trevor Chandler: The Path to AGI Is Modeling Brains - Not Expanding LLMs
Innovation is the hot sauce of economic progress. Trevor Chandler is one of the hottest inventors on the planet. Whether it's inventing Covid detection masks, AI-driven portable disease-detection machines, or robotic AI-guided robotic sensors, Trevor is a whirlwind of discovery and practical implementation. Join me in this fascinating and highly entertaining interview with Trevor Chandler. You
Is this 1929 All Over Again?
John Llewellyn, Lehman's Former Chief Economist, Head of Independent-Economics, and Leading Global Analyst,Talks Today's and Tomorrow's Geoeconomics and GeopoliticsJohn, as you'll quickly learn from this terrific podcast, has seen more and knows more about the global economy, regional economies, and geopolitics than virtually all of the world's top finance and economics ministers as well as treasu
Daniel Shaviro, NYU Professor of Taxation at NYU Law School, and I Discuss Inequality, Optimal Taxation, Tariffs, and Tax Reform
Dan is the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at NYU Law School, is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. Before entering law teaching, he spent three years each in private practice, and at the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, where he worked on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In 1987, Shaviro began his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School, and he moved to
Seth Benzell is Back to Update Us on All things AI
With the leading ten AI companies comprising one third of the value of the S&P and none showing a profit plus the threat they pose to our jobs, let alone humanity, we best keep careful track of the industry. My former graduate student, Seth Benzell, is one of our nation's top AI experts. Seth discusses AI's so-called scaling law, the problem of too little data to fit the industry's
Harvard's Brilliant Sociologist, Orlando Patterson, Discusses The Paradox of Freedom
Orlando Patterson is simply mesmerizing. We all take "freedom" for granted. But Orlando has studied what it is and isn't -- now and across the millenia. The result of this immensely deep as well as deeply fascinating scholarship is a sober take on what we take for granted -- that freedom is clear cut, fundamental, universal, and here to stay. Orlando sets us straight, not based on op
Fred Lane is back with Secrets for Avoiding Your Personal 1929
I'm not a big fan of investment advisors. Economics teaches us that not everyone can beat the market. Yet, there are tens of thousands advisors out there who will tell you that they and they alone have the secret sauce. Actually, economics teaches us that no one can beat the market unless they have inside information. But economics also tells us how to keep the market from beating you -- by ta
Is Steve Laffey America's Last Real Republican? Steve's Back to Survey the Wreckage of the Trump Presidency
Steve Laffey is a true American rages-to-riches success story. But Steve took the biblical saying, "to those who have much is owed," fully to heart. After a highly successful career in banking, Steve returned to run for mayor in his birthplace -- Cranston, Rhode Island, taking it from bankruptcy to solvency and growth. His remarkable story is conveyed in this Wikipedia entry. This is Ste
The Wall Street Journal's Brilliant, Penetrating Columnist, Holman Jenkins, Gives His Take on the Big Issues of Our Times
I've been a huge fan of Holman Jenkins for years. His columns are deeply insightful and fun -- skewering the left and the right in equal measure. I found our conversation remarkably calming. Holman is a true student of history, so when he says this too will pass, it's particularly reassuring. Many columnists come and go. But Holman has been writing for and guiding the editorial page of the
Trump's Tariff Mania -- What's Really Going On? Premier Trade Attorney, Irene Chen, Surveys the Minefield
President Trump's on again, off again tariff mania is, well, choose your adjective. From one day to the next, imported products, be they pharmaceuticals, kitchen cabinets, lumber, or foreign movies, are being tariffed at massive rates. Brazilian products are facing 50 percent tariffs because Brazil isn't treating recently convicted former Brazilian President, Bolsonaro, to the President's liking,
Andrew Fesiak -- Live from Ukraine! Update on the War and Trump's Doublecross of Ukraine and NATO
Andrew Fesiak rejoins me on Economics Matters. He addresses these questions and more: Is Russia winning? Is Ukraine Short on Manpower? Is Trump selling out Ukraine and NATO by deed, if not word? Can Ukraine even up the sides with its new Flamingo cruise missile? What did the US refusal to join other NATO members in shooting down the Russian drone incursion in Poland tell us? Is Ukraine now exporti
David Levey, former Head of Moody's Sovereign Risk Rating Team, Discusses U.S. Fiscal Insolvency
Back in May, Moody's joined the other two major U.S. debt-rating companies, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Group, in downgrading US government debt. No surprise. Federal debt was close to 30 percent of GDP a quarter Century back. Today it's close to 100 percent and projected to exceed 150 percent by mid Century. No one is better positioned to discuss our nation's fiscal condition than David Leve
Famed Economics Journalist, Peter Coy, Interviews Me About Retirement Mistakes, Economics' vs Wall Street's Fin Planning, Fixing Social Security, and America's Insolvency
Peter Coy has been writing about economics for decades -- for the Associated Press, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. Peter is currently a freelance columnist. His terrific substack is petercoy.substack.com. I consider Peter our nation's top economics journalist. Unlike almost all other economics commentators, Peter does his homework. He reads academic economists' writings e
Ignazio Visco, Former Governor of the Bank of Italy and Premier Economist Discusses Europe's Economic, Demographic, and Technological Challenges
Ignazio Visco is a superb economist and central banker. He should be everyone's choice for the next President of the European Central Bank. Italy has a bad economic rap among those with a cursory knowledge of its fiscal condition and financial system. In fact, it's ranked as the most fiscally sustainable of all major EU countries and has one of the world's safest banking systems. The f
Famed Economic Historian, Gregory Clark, Reveals the Industrial Revolution's Secret Sauce
This podcast is not to be missed. Greg Clark is a brilliant economic historian with a remarkable, fact-based take on the role of genetics in economic evolution. Genetics is, of course, a dangerous word when used to discuss humans and their success. But genetics, indeed, simply the ability to live longer and procreate better, can make a major difference over the long sweep of economic history. It c
Bill Raduchel -- the Amazing, Unsung Hero of our Digital Age, Past, Present, and Future
I met Bill Raduchel as a grad student at Harvard. He was then and remains today a rare combination of pure genius and utter humility. My interactions with Bill were limited. But I instinctively realized he was some form of economics, software, and computer god rolled into a lovely person who could teach you about those subjects or anything else of interest. I met up again with Bill two years back
What's Really Going on With Social Security? A Conversation With PBS' Premier Financial Journalist -- Richard Eisenberg
When it comes to personal finance journalism, Richard is simply as good as it gets. After I read Richard's Next Avenue column, What the Heck is Going On at Social Security, I realized it was beyond time to have him on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. Richard Eisenberg is an “unretired” writer, editor, podcaster and author. He writes “The View From Unretirement” for MarketWatch, biweekly arti
Peter Fox Penner Is Back with a Vision of Our Energy Future -- Clean Capital Efficiency
Back in January 2023, Peter Fox Penner appeared on Economics Matters -- the Podcast to discuss his fabulous book, Power After Carbon, Building a Clean Resilient Grid. Peter, who studied engineering in college and economics at the University of Chicago, where he earned a PhD, is surely among the most knowledge people in the country on America's energy system. He's back in this fascinating
Famed Personal Finance Journalist and Author, Jean Chatzky, Talks Women and Money
Jean Chatzky is one of America's leading personal finance journalists and authors. Jean and I are long-time buds. I'm delighted to have her on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. Jean is in the midst of an extraordinary career. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English, Jean did equity research for Dean Witter and then moved into financial journalism -- first with W
Everything You Need to Know About Trusts With Alan Glassman
As Senator Ernst sweetly reminded us, we're all going to die. But not all of us will be prepared financially to die. Thinking about the afterlife is rather unpleasant for most of us. Yes, there's heaven to look forward to. But who knows if we'll make it. There's lots of religions, different from our own, that are convinced that we'll be rejected before we even apply. So, we put
Jay Abolofia Demo's MaxiFi's New Powerful Tools For Estate Planning
Economics PhD, CFP, President of Lyon Financial Planning, Jay Abolofia shows you how to do estate planning using MaxiFi Planner's new spending cap and other unique features. If you're a MaxiFi Planner user, you already know and trust Jay. Jay provides bi-monthly MaxiFi office hours and uses MaxiFi in his own financial planning practice. Jay also provides a terrific co-piloting service for MaxiFi u
Larry Leamer on Andy Warhol's Coterie of Female Victims and Whether America's Top-Selling Artist's Work Is Worth their Canvases
I've known Larry Leamer forever thanks to my close friendship with Larry's recently departed, economist extraordinaire, brother -- Edward Leamer. Ed wasn't bowled over by any economist. But he was in awe of Larry, years before Larry became one of our nation's leading biographers. Much of Larry's work focuses on the rich and scandalous. Warhol's Muses certainty meets that bill. The book, which is f
Brilliant, Renowned Investor, Fred Lane, Discusses Hedging and Avoiding Trump Tariff Mayhem in your Portfolio
This is Fred's third appearance on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. I wanted to get Fred back on asap as part of my ongoing quest to keep people financially safe. Fred is the Founder and Managing Member of Lane Generational LLC, an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston (www.lanegenerational.com). Lane Generational provides investment management services on a discre
Anders Åslund, Everyone's Go-To Economist on Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Global Economy, Surveys America's Betrayals, Foreign and Domestic
I'm just delighted to have Anders Åslund on Economics Matters -- the Podcast. I met Anders in the late 1990s when he asked me to go with him to Russia to discuss pension and other economic reforms with the Russian government. At the time, Anders was working for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is now Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. This was a period of great hope for R
Former Airforce Pilots, Mark and Kara Brandt, Talk Flying the U-2 and C-5, Flying for United, and Landing their Finances With MaxiFi
Mark and Kara are a 50-50 combination of Top Gun and The Right Stuff. Mark was chosen by the Airforce to fly the U-2 Spy Plane -- at 72,000 feet, in a space suit to keep from compressing to a raison. Kara was picked to fly the Airforce's enormous C-5 cargo plane -- large enough to hold five trailways buses. Mark was Kara's flight instructor years before they accidentally reconnected and en
Apollo's Chief Economist, Torsten Slok, Estimates a 90 Percent Odds of Recession
The markets are going nuts for a good reason. The Administration is taking, at random, three steps backwards and 1 step forward on a wide range of issues. These include effectively eliminating trade with China, threatening the independence of the Fed, attacking our nation's comparative advantages in education, scientific achievement, training foreign students, and providing tourists a warm welcome
David Barboza
David Barboza, a Brilliant, Informed, and Thoughtful China Expert, Discusses U.S.-China Relations. The Relationship has gone from Distant to Close and Now to Dangerous as the U.S. Faces Economic Irrelevance
Rudiger Bachmann
Trump, the German View. A Discussion with Rüdiger Bachmann, One of Germany's Most Influential Economists and Public Intellectuals
Richard Berner
Is Musk-Trump's Evisceration of Financial Oversight Sheer Lunacy? Richard Berner, NYU Professor of Finance, Former First Director of the Treasury's Office of Financial Research, and Former Morgan Stanley Chief Economics Sounds the Alarm!I'm delighted to have my long-time friend, Dick (Richard) Berner, on the podcast. Dick is among the most knowledgeable economists in the world when it
Terry Savage and Larry Discuss Roth Conversions
Terry Savage, our Nation's Brilliant Personal Finance Guru, Returns to Economics Matters to Discuss Roth Conversions
Moshe Milevsky
Superb Economist, Moshe Milevsky, Discusses Mitigating Longevity Risks Via Past, Present, and Future Tontines/AnnuitiesMoshe Milevsky is one of my all-time favorite economists. He's a true expert on personal financial economics and when it comes to longevity risk, there is no greater authority. He's also a joy to learn from. Moshe has an uncanny ability to deliver complex ideas in the simplest pos
Liz Weston
Liz Weston, the Internet's Most Read Personal Finance Columnist Joins Economics Matters -- the Podcast to Share Her Career-Long Trove of Critical Financial Secrets and Advice
Liz Weston is the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet. Her twice-weekly columns for MSN Money generate 10 million page views each month, and millions more read her Q&A columns that appear in newspapers in
Optimal Roth Conversions -- Go Big or Go Home!
Jay Abolofia, PhD economist, CFP, and President of Lyon Financial Planning, joins me to discuss your ticket to potentially major lifetime tax savings. It's MaxiFi's Roth Conversion Optimizer. The Optimizer is a powerful new addition to MaxiFi Planner. MaxiFi, developed by my software company, Economic Security Planning, Inc., does economics-based financial planning.
George Kinder Is Back to Discuss His Marvelous New Book, The Three Domains of Freedom
A year back, George Kinder joined Economics Matters -- the Podcast, to discuss his life's passion -- integrating Mindfulness, Meditation, and Money. They sound like strange bedfellows, but George is one part Henry Thoreau, one part Zen Master, one part Financial Guru, and ten parts Mensch. George's bio is here. He's a giant in the field of personal finance, based not just on his unique philosophic
Phil Moeller, Get What's Yours for Medicare
Medicare Open Enrollment Is Here! And Phil Moeller's Back to Discuss his New Book: Get What's Yours for Medicare: Revised and Updated.
Phil's hot new book, Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage and Minimize Your Cost -- is available at Simon & Schuster as well as here, here, and here. Phil's my good friend and co-author with PBS NewsHour's Paul Solman of our NY Times best se
Famed Washington Post Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Eduardo Porter, Joins Economics Matters!
Famed Washington Post Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Eduardo Porter, Joins Economics Matters --- the Podcast!
Eduardo's books, The Price of Everything and American Poison are must reads. But then there's been an endless and ongoing stream of simply outstanding columns. Take this 2018, NY Times article on the Rust Belt. Roughly 800 words later, you have almost all you need to know about why
Daron Acemoglu — Your Jaw Will Drop
One of the World's Top Economists -- MIT's Daron Acemoglu -- Discusses Automation, the Secret to Development, AI, the Origins of Conflict, Networks, the Sustainability of Democracy, and, Well, Your Jaw Will Drop.
Daron's Wiki page is here. The key point in is bio? At 40, Daron received the John Bates Clark Medal for the top economist under 40. He's just turned 57. Were there a pri
Israel's Extraordinary Economist and Public Intellectual, Eytan Sheshinski, Provides a Must-Hear/See Update on the Gaza-Plus Conflict and Far More
Everything has changed since September 2022 when I discussed Israel's economy and geopolitics with Eytan and Yuval Steinitz, one of Israel's top security experts and former Finance Minister. Eytan's extraordinary bio, covering his amazing academic, public policy, and private-sector careers, is posted here. Please listen/watch this podcast that provides an up-to-date assessment of the w
Kevin Esler is Back!
Kevin Esler is the creator of tipsladder.com, a free website that helps you purchase TIPS -- Treasury Inflation Protected Bonds. Back on July 18th, Kevin joined Economics Matters - the Podcast to walk everyone though his tremendously valuable tipsladder.com website. Kevin's spent the last few months making the tool far more accessible and versatile. You can now use a slider bar to see how
Live from Ukraine! An Update on the War with Andrew Fesiak
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Andrew Fesiak joins Professor Kotlikoff on Economics Matters for the 3rd time. He is a notable expert in Eastern European military and political affairs, particularly regardin
How Much Life Insurance Do I Really Need? Professor Kotlikoff Provides the Easy Answer to this Critical Question.
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Professor Kotlikoff delves into the nuanced world of life insurance with 2 groundbreaking tools that he developed, MaxiFi Planner and Maximize My Social Security. Both tools hel
Joe Klein and John Ellis Handicap the Election, the Middle East, China, and Ukraine
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Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Joe Klein and John Ellis, two towering figures in political journalism and global commentary. Joe Klein, a longtime correspondent for Time magaz
Steve Brown, John Hancock's Legendary CEO, Reveals the Secrets of his Amazing Success
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Professor Laurence Kotlikoff is. joined by Steve Brown, an authoritative figure in the insurance and investment world. Steve Brown’s remarkable 43-year journey at John Hancock, fr
Measuring and Managing Climate Risk from the World's Premier Catastrophe Modeler -- Karen Clark
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Professor Kotlikoff talks with Karen Clark, co-founder and CEO of KCC (Karen Clark and Company), a pioneer in the field of catastrophic risk assessment. Karen, who created the catas
From the Archives: Exploring Federal Reserve Strategies and Global Inflation with Greg Mankiw
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This episode is from the archives recorded on January 4th, 2023. In this lecture in front of a live audience, Professor Kotlikoff engages in a deep and insightful discussion with Gr
Learn to Build a TIPS Ladder from Kevin Esler -- the Creator of the Outstanding, Free Tool -- TIPSLADDER.COM
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Professor Kotlikoff talks with Kevin Esler, the creator of tipsladder.com, a free website that helps you purchase TIPS -- Treasury Inflation Protected Bonds. Kevin is a retiree from A
The Devils Will Get No Rest -- James Conroy Talks About His New Book on the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca Conference that Produced the Short- and Long-Term Blueprints for Allied Victory Over Hitler.
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Professor Kotlikoff talks with James Conroy, a distinguished author and historian with a diverse career background that gives him a unique voice in historical accuracy. He has served in t
David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States, Talks Financial Insolvency, Policy Solutions, and Politics
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Professor Kotlikoff sits down with David Walker, a former Comptroller General of the United States, acclaimed author, and esteemed voice in the realm of public finance and fiscal resp
Jeffrey Friedman, Dartmouth's Brilliant Political Scientist, Tells Us Why Presidential Machismo Wins Elections
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Professor Kotlikoff delves into the intricacies of various investment strategies, ranging from conservative to aggressive stock-bond allocations, and how these choices can affect living standards. He highlights the significant differences between traditional financial planning and his own economic-based approach, and why it’s crucial to account for market fluctuations and adjust spending habits ac
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This episode is from the archives, recorded in February of 2023. Professor Laurence Kotlikoff is joined by Paul Solman, renowned economics correspondent for PBS NewsHour and co-author of a
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