Optimist Q&A: The AI Bubble, the Rapture, and Free Lunch

We can’t give financial advice. Or feedback on your 20-page tax proposal. But economist Kathryn Edwards did take a run at nearly 20 listener questions in under 60 minutes. Among them: Why care about birth rates if robots are taking all the jobs? What happens if the AI bubble bursts? Will the dollar collapse? Can the bond market sway the White House? Plus: Why the minimum wage matters even if it doesn’t alleviate most poverty and how to argue for universal free school lunch.

Chapters:

1:43 — AI & birth rates

2:57 — AI & birth rates (cont.)

5:43 — AI bubble burst

8:11 — The experience of inflation

11:20 — Minimum wage & poverty

13:55 — Job loss after 50

17:30 — Productivity squeeze

21:00 — CEO pay ratio cap

21:49 — Could the dollar collapse?

26:59 — Bonds & the Fed