Andrew Yang

United States

Entrepreneur, Anti-Poverty, Human-Centered Economy, #YangGang, UBI, RCV, Co-chair @fwd_party founder @humanityforward @venture4america board @fairvote

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Articles

Put Down Your Phone

1 week ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

A friend at dinner said to me a couple months ago, “Thank you, Andrew. Thanks to you, I quit using Instagram.”“Really?” I responded. “What did I do?” I was a little concerned that I had done something odd or off-putting. He said, “Well, I was posting pictures of food or my life all of the time and I got myself to 5,000 followers. It took a lot of effort and I was really proud. Then I looked at you and you had 500,000 followers. And I thought, ‘What am I doing?
The Future Economy

2 weeks ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

What will the economy of the future look like? I get asked this a lot, and the truth is, for most people . . . not great. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently came out and said that entry-level white-collar work – the work formerly done by new college graduates – will be wiped out and that unemployment could surge to 20% in just a few years. Dario is proposing an AI tax, so he’s not trumpeting a case that helps him.
The Abundance Movement

3 weeks ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

A couple months ago I interviewed Derek Thompson about his book with co-author Ezra Klein, Abundance. It was, in many ways, a positive, wonky book about reducing red tape and enabling ‘a liberalism that builds,’ literally and figuratively, to solve today’s problems. I’ve been supportive of many of these ideas as I agree that making government work better is a laudable goal. And their argument has filled a need, as “Abundance” has been on the bestseller list now for 10 straight weeks.
Memorial Day ‘25

1 month ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

Hello, I hope that you’re enjoying this weekend with friends and family. Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial beginning of Summer. Summer 2025 is here! How does it feel? I grew up in upstate New York and then a suburb of New York City in Westchester County. There were not many kids there from military families. A couple guys from my high school went to West Point or the Air Force Academy but they were somewhat unusual.
US voters will soon vote via smartphones, businessman Andrew Yang says

1 month ago | inkl.com | Andrew Yang

It’s undeniable, mobile phones have become essential items in our lives. We use them for everything: communicating with other people, showing off our best pictures, booking gym classes, managing our finances, and even paying for our groceries. Yet, there is one thing most people still don’t use their smartphones for: voting in elections.
Where has the Trust Gone?

1 month ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

This week will be marked by the release of the new book, Original Sin by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper about Joe Biden’s disastrous choice to run for re-election. The press excerpt has already set off a mini-firestorm with an account of Joe Biden’s incoherence backstage at the now-infamous LA fundraiser hosted by George Clooney last June. I joked with a friend, “Who knew it would take George Clooney to save democracy?” His Op-Ed was too little too late.
Moral Ambition

1 month ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

“Be a good person.” We’ve all either given that advice to our kids or received it thousands of times. Most people might interpret it as “Be nice” or “Be kind to others.” Rutger Bregman is thinking a lot bigger than that. You might remember Rutger from his books Utopia for Realists or Humankind or his TED Talk on Universal Basic Income. Now, he’s out with a new book, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.
Mike Duggan

1 month ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

Hello, I hope that you’re doing great. The current administration keeps fumbling the ball as economic optimism is slipping away; GDP officially shrank in the first quarter due to Trump's tariffs. Meanwhile, Democrats are infighting. More Americans are souring on each party as their popularity descends to record lows. People ask me all the time what the future of Independent politics looks like in the United States. Recently, I’ve been responding with two words:“Mike Duggan.”Who is Mike?
The Project

2 months ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

What is Project 2025? You kind of know. But what is it really? That’s the question David A. Graham of the Atlantic set out to answer in his punchy new book, “The Project: How Project 2025 is Reshaping America” which comes out next week. I interviewed David for the podcast. “You probably haven’t read Project 2025 because it’s a 900-page document with 70 different authors,” David notes. Project 2025 was produced under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, a fifty-year old conservative thinktank.
Frontloading

2 months ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

Do you know of anyone who rushed out to buy a phone last week to avoid a possible price spike from the tariffs? If you do, you're not alone. And companies are doing the same thing. I spoke to a big investor, who shared this: "My companies pulled all of their orders up and ordered everything they could for the rest of the year to avoid the tariffs. One of them sent a fleet of trucks to Mexico and packed everything that they could. I think the second quarter will look fine.