Very Serious with Josh Barro Podcast
1) Worthwhile Canadian Invective
Megan, Ben and I react to Donald Trump’s very long address to Congress, the topic he did not want to talk about for very long (inflation), the tariffs he seems to realize people are skeptical about, a...Show More
2) Reaping and Sowing
I'm back again with another talkative podcast for the political center with Mike Pesca, Ben Dreyfuss and Megan McArdle. This week we’re (unsurprisingly) focused on the ongoing actions of DOGE: the fir...Show More
3) The Reign of Elon
We’re back again with another podcast with views from (and disagreements within) the center about Elon Musk, who has been the prime mover behind a lot of the news this week— efforts to cull the federa...Show More
4) A Centrist Look at Trump Week One
I’m back in your ears this week — testing out an idea. There’s a lot of political chat shows out there aimed at slices of the ideological spectrum, but the middle is underserved. Shouldn’t we have a s...Show More
5) David Schleicher on the Fiscal Whipsaw in State Governments
How are state and local governments faring post-COVID? It's a pretty different picture than what we're seeing with the federal budget deficit. States enjoyed generous federal aid and surprisingly stro...Show More
6) The Martini Police, with Peter Suderman
We are back with Peter Suderman’s semi-annual visit to the Very Serious podcast! Getting ready for spring, Peter and I talked about best practices for muddling fresh fruit into cocktails. We talked ab...Show More
7) Jason Furman on the Inflation That Keeps Going and Going and Going
We’re back with another episode of the Very Serious podcast, and this episode has a friend of the show: Prof. Jason Furman, who teaches economics at Harvard.Or, as Jason put it to me, he’s a bit of a ...Show More
8) National Lessons from New York's Red Wave, with Ross Barkan
There was no national “Red Wave” in last November’s elections, but there sure was one in New York. Republicans won a clean sweep on Long Island, even washing George Santos into Congress. They lost Asi...Show More
9) The answer to homelessness and homeownership is supply, with Jerusalem Demsas
A few weeks back, I wrote about the ethic of homeownership, and how I think it is unlikely to be dislodged from American society. If we’re going to improve our housing policy and ensure more adequate ...Show More
The answer to homelessness and homeownership is supply, with Jerusalem Demsas
51:39 | Jan 15th, 2023
10) Tim Lee on Dads Who "Lean Out"
Tim Lee is the author of Full Stack Economics and one of my favorite reads on business and the economy. He’s also a parent to three children under the age of seven, and a major reason he quit his full...Show More