EconTalk

The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)

as retirees become the dominant voting bloc, spending on pensions and health care crowds out roads, schools, and defense. Shrinking economies make public debt harder to service, and fewer births mean fewer scientists, artists, and inventors.

The New York Times

Why Thousands of Cubans Are Migrating to Guyana

We need the migrants as much as the migrants need us, and they are really filling huge gaps in the system.

The Prof G Pod

Young People Are Giving Up on Adulthood | John Burn-Murdoch

In many countries now, a couple that moves in together is more likely to break up than to have a kid. And that's never been true until now. So I still think what we almost want to do is make having a girlfriend or boyfriend high status.

Office Hours

Scott Galloway: Social Security Is Failing Young People | Office Hours

How do we do away with the the transfer and the cost of transferring money from an anxious, obese, and depressed generation to the wealthiest generation in the history of the planet, and that is baby boomers.

The Prof G Pod

Scott Galloway: Social Security Is Failing Young People | Office Hours

The thing that's going to gut this economy is the fact that we're now spending 40% of our federal budget on programs for seniors, you know, uh Medicare and um and social security and all these basically old people vote and the Dian democracy is working too well and we keep transferring money from young people are more productive to old people who are less productive.

Fresh Air

Amanda Peet

There are so many people who are older. It's one of the biggest demographics in the country, considerably older than you are. But if you want to live a life, you're gonna be older, even if you're not yet. And like, you're what, in your early 50s? I mean, there's so many people of that age. It's a demographic, you can sell your movies to those people. Why would you? Why would you leave them out?

Prof G Markets

Is Marriage a Bad Bet? A Divorce Lawyer Explains | Prof G Markets

80% of women under the age of 30 now don't have a kid. And I don't think it's because they've decided they don't like kids. I think it's because they're having trouble finding economically and emotionally viable partners.