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Money, Fashion, and the Aesthetics of Class Politics
When I met Véronique Hyland, author of the bestselling book Dress Code and ELLE’s fashion features director, about how fashion intersects with politics, gender, and class (and the person who coined the term ‘millennial pink’!), I wanted to talk to her about:
👊🏼 The role of aesthetics in labor movement-building and persuasion campaigns, from tradwife influencers to union leaders
🎽 Why one-size-fits-all flammable crop top brand Brandy Melville also sells literature about libertarian economic policy
💰 What current income and consumption trends—like that almost 50% of all consumption is driven by the top 10% of earners—might portend for fashion trends like “underconsumption”
🥂 And finally, how the time-honored fascination with mimicking “upper class” dress reveals the underlying assumption that the only way to have (or look like you have) a nice life, is to be rich
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/fashion.
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Why Economist Kathryn Edwards is Optimistic About America’s Future
2025’s financial news cycle feels like a broken wind-up doll, where recession indicators, unemployment numbers, inflation data, and tax cuts are #JustTheTip of an unsettling iceberg. So, this week, we’re joined by economist Kathryn Edwards (aka “Keds Economist”), and I got to ask her about:
🧠 The no-brainer policy with a huge ROI that nobody’s talking about
✂️ The fundamental flaw with using tax policy (read: tax cuts) to stimulate growth
🇺🇸 Her honest POV on America’s economic outlook and “recession-proofing” a household
👊🏼 The limits of “empowerment” rhetoric, which often tries to use cultural or social nudging to solve problems that simply require money
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/economic-future.
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Is This Simple Idea the Solution for America's Wealth Inequality?
It’s easy to point out that wealth inequality in America is a problem. It’s much harder to identify realistic fixes. But what if there were a simple, elegant solution? In today’s episode, I’m speaking with Matt Bruenig, a former National Labor Relations Board lawyer and policy expert who’s one of the brightest minds in this space. This conversation will get you thinking differently (and bigger) about money, the economy, and wealth—and why a solidarity economy is stronger for everyone.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/social-wealth-funds.
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On "Return to Office" & Daycare as Class Issues, the Role of Profit, and Being "Entitled"
It’s hard to believe, but somehow it’s already time for another Rich Girl Roundup about our last three deep dives:
The Real Cost of Being a Working Parent, to which Rich Dad Nation had a decidedly mixed response
How Home Insurance and Climate Change are Upending the Real Estate Market, which introduced some good questions about the role of everything from technology to sabotage in effecting change
The Truth About “Government Waste,” Privatizing Public Goods, & Turning Citizens into Customers, which generated an absolute treasure trove of stories from government workers
We’ll give y’all one guess which generated the lion’s share of emails—this batch of feedback had a surprising amount of tea, so don’t miss it.
(00:00) Introduction
(01:44) General feedback we've heard recently
(08:00) Feedback on the "Working Parents/Childcare" episode
(34:45) The "Disappointed Dads" feedback
(47:22) Return to office and entitlement
(54:39) Feedback on the "Home Insurance & Climate Change" episode
(01:08:20) Connecting our "Climate Change" and "Privatization" episodes
(01:17:03) Feedback on the "Privatization" episode
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/rto-daycare.
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The Truth about "Government Waste," Privatizing Public Goods, & Turning Citizens into Customers
For years, I’ve referenced the book The Privatization of Everything as a seminal work in my understanding of the relationship between government and the private sector. So given the recent DOGE of it all, it seemed like a great time to revisit this conversation—now with one of its authors, Donald Cohen. We discuss the role privatization plays in government waste, and who stands to gain from the transformation of public funds into private wealth. (Hint: It’s not the public!)
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/privatization.
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