Podcast
Risk Talking
Hosted by Manhattan Institute · EN
Risk Talking is a podcast hosted by Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—where she discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language. Schrager, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal, interviews leading economists, business journalists, and historians, exploring their work in an effort to understand what's happening in the marketplace today.
Allison Schrager is also a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, LLC, a risk advisory firm. She's written widely in the popular press, received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia, and is the author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.
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Bail Bonds and the Nature of Risk
Jun 8, 202300:50:37Tap to summarizeBail bondsman Nicholas Lindblad joins Allison Schrager to discuss the risk calculations involved in the bail business.
Transcribe →Can States and Cities Dig Themselves Out?
May 18, 202300:48:16Tap to summarizeYale Law School professor David Schleicher joins Allison Schrager to discuss the fiscal situation of American states and localities. His new book, In a Bad State, is out now.
Transcribe →The Banking Crisis and ESG Investing
Apr 28, 202300:39:52Tap to summarizeRichard J. Shinder, founder and managing partner of Theatine Partners, a financial consultancy, joins Allison Schrager to discuss the banking crisis, ESG investing, and the intersection of politics and financial markets.
Transcribe →Reforming Social Security
Mar 23, 202300:44:04Tap to summarizeAmerican Enterprise Institute senior fellow Andrew Biggs joins Allison Schrager to discuss Social Security's flaws, the tradeoffs required to rework the program, and the role of private accounts in American retirement saving.
Transcribe →The Uses and Abuses of Debt
Mar 1, 202300:29:21Tap to summarizeWhy do cities and states find themselves in fiscal holes? Economist Robert Inman joins Allison Schrager to discuss the roots of municipal debt crises, the post-Covid balance sheets across the U.S., and the need for disciplined local governance.
Transcribe →When Our Relationship to Government Changed
Feb 15, 202300:51:58Tap to summarizeEconomic historian Price Fishback joins Allison Schrager to discuss the economic history of the New Deal, the various programs that constituted it, and whether today's economic struggles compare to those of the 1930s.
Transcribe →Making Sense of the U.S. Health-Care System
Feb 1, 202300:45:06Tap to summarizeMI senior fellow Chris Pope joins Allison Schrager to discuss health care in the United States, the future of entitlement spending, and ways to increase competition and coverage.
Transcribe →Why America Needs Apprenticeships
Dec 15, 202200:36:45Tap to summarizeUrban Institute fellow Robert Lerman joins Allison Schrager to discuss apprenticeship programs in the U.S., the need both to equip young people with occupational skills and to retrain workers, and lessons from other countries' own apprenticeship policies.
Transcribe →How to Fix Human Capital
Nov 30, 202200:39:50Tap to summarizeJonathan Meer joins Allison Schrager to discuss the American labor market, the need to prioritize skilled labor, and changes that educators can make to prepare young people to enter the workplace.
Transcribe →The Return of Economic Reality
Nov 8, 202200:50:37Tap to summarizeBrian Riedl joins Allison Schrager to discuss the end of free-lunch economics, the hard choices facing fiscal and monetary policymakers, and the long-term demographic challenges facing developed-world economies.
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