Optimist Economy
Optimist Economy
Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi
OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions
49 minutes Posted May 27, 2025 at 10:10 am.
Ground Rules for the Lightning Round
Are you worried about U.S. economic data?
Hot take on college tuition and college debt.
Keds' rejoinder to, "All taxes are theft."
Can capitalism survive de-growth?
Could we make mortgages 'portable'?
Explain the bond market, mortgage rates and other interest rates.
What's wrong with a tariff-driven tax system like they had in the Gilded Age?
What is an ideal wealth distribution?
Explain the thinking behind, 'The more lies you tell, the less of the future you get to be a part of.'
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Kathryn Edwards answers listeners’ economic questions, with her co-host's stopwatch running. In under an hour, we cover risks to U.S. economic data, college tuition, taxes, bonds, degrowth, mortgages, tariffs vs. income taxes, wealth concentration, and why the future can’t be built on lies. Finally, for those of you not from Wisconsin, do you know how to pronounce Waukesha? Because Robin sure didn’t. And apparently it’s not Wauke$ha, either.

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