Member-only story

Heard Tell Episode: Plain Talk Economics

Plain Talk on Economics, Inflation, Jobs Report, Sahm Rule, Politicized Economics, & more w/ economist Dr Stephen Popick

Andrew Donaldson
2 min readAug 3, 2024

Download and listen to Heard Tell wherever you get your podcasts:

Listen on iTunes

Listen on Spotify

Listen on iHeartRadio

Heard Tell RSS Feed

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about economics with our returning friend, economist, and writer Dr. Stephen Popick with plan spoken, grown folk talk about economic headlines, inflation worries and recession fears,answering what social media freakout over the Sahm Rule is about, why housing is a generational economic issue and warning, politicizing economic news, answering the “recession, not recession” question and more.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

Timestamps:

00: Intro/ What “Jobs Report” really means & how to discern headlines

7:55 Interest rate cut in September?

13:40 The value of “The Dollar” & the value of you, the consumers, dollar and the personal debt…

--

--

Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

Responses (1)