Robin Rauzi

1 month ago | listennotes.com | Kathryn Anne Edwards |Robin Rauzi

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Kathryn answers listeners’ economic questions, with Robin’s stopwatch running. In under an hour, we cover risks to U.S. economic data, college tuition, taxes, bonds, degrowth, mortgages, tariffs vs. income taxes, wealth concentration, and why the future can’t be built on lies. Finally, for those of you not from Wisconsin, do you know how to pronounce Waukesha? Because Robin sure didn’t. And apparently it’s not Wauke$ha, either.

1 month ago | listennotes.com | Kathryn Edwards |Robin Rauzi

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Child care is exhibit A that not everything can be solved by private marketplaces. It is too expensive and too scarce — and nothing will change that fact. (Maybe you’ve heard someone say that preschool costs more than state university tuition? True in 38 states.) Even among those who think that there’s a role for the government to play in early childhood care, there are still very strong disagreements about what public support should look like and who it should go to.

1 month ago | listennotes.com | Kathryn Edwards |Robin Rauzi

ABOUT THIS EPISODE What sparks progress? The right political conditions? Social pressure? Economic upheaval? In response to two listeners’ questions, we say… both none of those and all of the above. As an example, we talk through just one bit of the New Deal in the 1930s, which was the law to limit child labor. That movement started decades earlier, and continued decades afterward.

1 month ago | listennotes.com | Kathryn Edwards |Robin Rauzi

ABOUT THIS EPISODE In the category of low-hanging policy fruit, why won’t any politician pluck the ripe, juicy goodness of federally mandated paid sick leave? About 30 million American workers not only don’t get a paid day off when they have the flu, there’s no law on the books to prevent them from being fired if they call in sick. The job-protection aspect alone is worth $2,000 a year to vulnerable working moms.

Mar 16, 2025 | latimes.com | Robin Rauzi

In the history of American cinema, sequels that match or surpass the quality of their predecessors are not unheard of. Many critics preferred “The Empire Strikes Back” to “Star Wars.” “The Godfather, Part II” is always ranked right alongside the first installment. And despite a seven-year gap between them, “Aliens” showed no stylistic drop-off from “Alien.”Alas, “Rugrats in Paris--The Movie” does not fall into this category. This will matter not one lick to 6-year-olds.