Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

What is the “trick” in “trickle down” economics? It’s how wealthy elites and their neoliberal lackeys convince you that ... Read more

Is government debt real? Is anything real? Professor Stephanie Kelton gives Nick and Goldy a master class on the hottest... Read more

The only thing holding us back from big, bold, progressive change is ourselves. When critics wonder if we can afford to ... Read more

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he’s seriously considering running for President. Nick Hanauer, who knows Schul... Read more

You can’t throw a rock without hitting a wandering conversation about Universal Basic Income these days—but in our offic... Read more

Nick, Goldy, and their guests William Lazonick and Lenore Palladino explain why "shareholder value maximization" is the ... Read more

Tax rates on the wealthy have steadily eroded in the United States over the last forty years, leaving us with an upside-... Read more

Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren’t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists—but they ... Read more

When it comes to health care, every country in the world is running their own version of the same experiment—and the res... Read more

Here are two phrases that should be oxymorons, but aren’t: ‘working poor’ and ‘poverty-level jobs.’ Writer and anti-pove... Read more

We asked our guests and listeners: what’s the spookiest, sneakiest, and scariest trickle-down trick? Find out what’s mak... Read more

Like many rich Americans, Nick used to think that focusing their philanthropic efforts in the country’s education system... Read more

Rutger Bregman, who The Guardian has called “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas”, joins us this week to daydream a better... Read more

It’s not just economic inequality, the gap between rich and poor people, that’s growing wider in America. Spatial inequa... Read more

As newly elected Democrats across the country enter their respective capitol buildings for the first time, Civic Venture... Read more

In the 1990s and early 2000s, free trade was considered an unalloyed good. But now, policymakers and economists agree th... Read more

Not so long ago, economic growth was shared widely among Americans thanks to a suite of policies that boosted the bargai... Read more

Monopoly and its equally evil twin monopsony are destroying competition, depressing wages, and slowing economic growth. ... Read more

The overtime threshold used to be the minimum wage for the middle class—but where did it go? Labor experts Sharon Block ... Read more

Senator Cory Booker explains the problem with stock buybacks, walks us through his Workers Dividend Act, and offers Gold... Read more