Social Security Don’t Miss
Optimist Economy
Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi
4.9 • 829 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What’s with the persistent narrative of Social Security's impending doom? Are the baby boomers draining the trust fund? Are Americans living too long? No and no. There are just two of the many misunderstandings people have about what economist Kathryn Edwards will tell you (for hours if you let her) is, truly, the most popular and effective public program in U.S. history. She’s also optimistic that Congress will make necessary reforms just before the trust fund is depleted in 2035. Which is good. Because Robin does want to be able to retire.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what is going on in the country? |
| 0:04.8 | Um. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to Optimist Economy. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Catherine. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Robin. |
| 0:15.1 | On this show, we believe the U.S. economy can be better, |
| 0:17.6 | and we talk about how to get there one problem and solution at a time. |
| 0:28.5 | Okay. can be better, and we talk about how to get there one problem and solution at a time. For our long time, listeners, you'll know that Robin and I are struggling with a transition |
| 0:34.4 | between segments, as well as coming up with names for them. |
| 0:38.1 | But we've had a breakthrough. |
| 0:39.5 | We have a new segment. |
| 0:40.9 | It's not called segment one. |
| 0:42.4 | It has its own name and it has its own purpose. |
| 0:45.4 | Robin, why don't you tell us about it? |
| 0:47.4 | We're calling this section Retcon. |
| 0:50.2 | And Redcon was a word I actually looked up a few weeks ago and I was shocked. I didn't know it, but it means retroactive continuity. I guess it's a portmanteau. And as Catherine knows, I love a portmanteau. |
| 1:02.6 | I do too. So in television or movies, it's when you insert some sort of plot device that explains a bunch of other stuff that didn't connect. |
| 1:12.6 | And you make these connections after the fact. |
| 1:14.7 | So that's what we're going to do in this segment. |
| 1:16.9 | Yes, we're going to do a retcon where we think about the conversation we had last time, |
| 1:21.3 | which, you know, we don't really rehearse it. |
| 1:23.6 | Robin didn't even know what I was going to talk about. |
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