Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Bonus Episode: Pitchfork Politics — Affordability Won. Now Comes the Hard Part.

The morning after a historic midterm, Richard and Zach ask what Democrats actually learned. Their answer is bigger than a blue tsunami: working- and middle-class voters m

Why Bosses Get Away With Stealing Your Wages (with Terri Gerstein)

If you steal from your employer, you could end up in jail. But what happens when your employer steals from you? Every year, employers steal billions of dollars from Amer

Bonus Episode: Introducing Pitchfork Politics — Who Are the New Swing Voters?

We're bringing you something new from the Pitchfork universe! Today, we're sharing the debut episode of Pitchfork Politics, a new podcast hosted by Civic Ventures Presid

Why Your Raise Doesn’t Feel Like a Raise (with Angela Hanks)

You got a raise. So why does it feel like you’re still struggling? New research finds that rising debt payments have swallowed more than half of real income gains for a

Anti-Fascist Economics (with Isabella Weber)

What happens to democracy when people can no longer afford the basics of everyday life? Economist Isabella Weber argues that the affordability crisis isn't just an econo

Housing Is a Market Power Problem (with Sandeep Vaheesan & Brian Callaci)

Housing is still ridiculously expensive, and building more housing is absolutely part of the solution. But supply alone won’t fix a system where landlords have the power

Who Is Industrial Policy Really For? (with Isabel Estevez)

Industrial policy is back at the center of the economic debate. But tariffs, factories, and reshoring are only part of the story. In this 2023 conversation, development e

When Companies Run the Courts: How Corporate Power Becomes Legal Power (with Brendan Ballou)

We like to think that if a company cheats us, steals our wages, or breaks the law, we can take them to court. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance you’ve already signed t

Gouged: How Big Tech Reinvented the Rip-Off (with Lindsay Owens)

For 150 years, the price tag made a simple and universal promise: the price you saw was the price everyone saw. Now, that promise is disappearing. This week, Lindsay Owen

Can We Build a Common Good Economy? (with Mariana Mazzucato)

Economics teaches us to think of markets as natural forces, and government as something that should only intervene when they fail. In her new book, The Common Good Econom

The $29 Trillion Social Security Crisis We Already Know How to Fix ( with Rey Fuentes)

Americans are told Social Security is in trouble because there are more retirees and fewer workers to support them. But that story leaves out a major part of the problem:

Profit, Power, and the Crisis of the Common Good (with Sen. Chris Murphy)

Why do so many Americans feel powerless, lonely, and disconnected — and what does that have to do with our economy? Senator Chris Murphy joins Nick and Goldy to discuss

Chains of Command: How Franchising Turned Control Without Responsibility Into a Business Model (with Brian Callaci)

When you walk into a McDonald’s, it looks like one company. But legally, the person making your fries probably doesn’t work for McDonald’s at all. Brian Callaci, Chief Ec

The Joy of Money (with Carrie Joy Grimes)

Most personal finance advice starts with the same basic premise: you’re doing money wrong. But Carrie Joy Grimes, founder of WorkMoney and author of The Joy of Money, say

What Happened to Liberal Democracy (with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu)

Nobel Prize-winning MIT economist Daron Acemoglu joins Nick and Goldy to discuss his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperit

What Happens When the Other Washington Stops Enforcing Antitrust? (with WA State Attorney General Nick Brown)

Paramount Skydance wants to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that would put even more of Hollywood—and two major newsrooms—under one corporate roo

The Good Life Economy (with Elizabeth Wilkins)

What is the economy for — GDP, corporate profits, or people? This week, Nick and Goldy talk with Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, about R

Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Productivity Doesn’t Trickle Down (with Preston Mui)

Some of the world’s richest executives are selling AI as the engine of a yet-to-be realized “historic” productivity boom — while warning that it will also eliminate milli

Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Austerity Politics (with Clara Mattei)

This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that austerity is responsible economic policy. We’re revisitin

Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Zombie Economics (with Paul Krugman)

This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that bad economic ideas die once the evidence proves them wrong