Risk Talking

Risk Talking

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Risk Talking is a podcast hosted by Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—where she discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language. Schrager, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal, interviews leading economists, business journalists, and historians, exploring their work in an effort to understand what’s happening in the marketplace today. Allison Schrager is also a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, LLC, a risk advisory firm. She’s written widely in the popular press, received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia, and is the author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.

Recent Episodes

  • Bail Bonds and the Nature of Risk

    1 year ago
  • Can States and Cities Dig Themselves Out?

    2 years ago
  • The Banking Crisis and ESG Investing

    2 years ago
  • Reforming Social Security

    2 years ago
  • The Uses and Abuses of Debt

    2 years ago
  • When Our Relationship to Government Changed

    2 years ago
  • Making Sense of the U.S. Health-Care System

    2 years ago
  • Why America Needs Apprenticeships

    2 years ago
  • How to Fix Human Capital

    2 years ago
  • The Return of Economic Reality

    2 years ago