2024-12-16
54 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present and future.
I am your host, David Beckwourth, a senior research fellow at the Merketis center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Joey Politano.
Joy is an economist and a commentator who writes a popular substack newsletter on economics.
Joy joins us today to talk about the AI investment boom, broader economic growth trends and potential tariffs.
Joy, welcome back to the program.
Thanks for having me back.
It's always a pleasure, David.
Well, last time you were here we were talking about your business, your newsletter.
You're very entrepreneurial.
You're living the American dream of sorts.
Tell us about that.
How's it going?
Yeah, so I am fully self employed.
For people who don't know I write the newsletter.
The newsletter is my basically entire source of income and it's all from people who pay for whatever paywall pieces I put in the newsletter.
We just passed two years of that being my full time job, which is kind of crazy to think about.
I remember when I started this, it's very funny.
I started it as like, oh, I'm going to write these things and then someone will see it and then hire me for like an RA position.