The Federal Reserve went to the Grand T-tons, and all we got was this lousy business show

from American public media. This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdole. It is Wednesday today, the 23rd day of August.

August could as always to have you along, everybody.

The center of the macroeconomic universe moves to Jackson Hole, Wyoming tomorrow.

Economists and central bankers and their ilk will swap suits for semi casual to discuss.

And this is a quote, structural shifts in the global economy at the Kansas City feds

and you'll get away up in the mountains. Most of us, though, don't get picture-esque

mountain views to accompany our musings on life's big economic questions.

So Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval decided to fire up a virtual campfire of

Rome, if you will, and ask people what structural shifts in the economy are keeping them up at night.

University of Houston, economist, Dietrich Fullrath may wish he was staring at the Grand T-tons.

But while he's trying to fall asleep, he thinks about a population that's growing too slow in aging.

Neither of those are just kind of like bad things by themselves, but they have these very kind of deep effects

on the structure of what's demanded in the economy.

Demands for more nursing home staff where there are already shortages.

Aisha and her hero glue with the University of Southern California says she's curious

about how the typical work week is evolving.

The pandemic taught us that a lot of people liked working from home,

but it's more than just working from home.

I think the regular eight to five schedules we used to have

are really super hard for families.

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