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Catherine Ann Edwards — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Catherine Ann Edwards has appeared on 4 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, Prof G Markets, It's Been a Minute. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Catherine said
“If you were to go back and look at the average productivity of the US worker over the past 90 years, you will not see a single technological innovation.”
— Catherine Ann Edwards (08:33)
“The economy has been the closest a $30 trillion economy could be to standing still. The market's not crashing, but there's a difference between free fall and firing on all cylinders.”
— Catherine Edwards
“If you make working and being a parent difficult, women will bear the brunt of that. This is just one of a really depressing portfolio of statistics you could pull.”
— Catherine Edwards
“I mean, can you imagine you have the same job and the same wage and the same salary and you both get laid off on the same day and they get four times the unemployment as you? Can you imagine if social security look like that?”
— Catherine Ann Edwards, on state-by-state benefit disparities
“You don't have to like unemployed people. In fact, go on hating them. This is just about a more efficient productive economy.”
— Catherine Ann Edwards, reframing UI as an economic efficiency tool
Episode appearances
4
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The term “working class” is so elastic that when Gallup asks Americans to self-identify, plenty of people earning over $100,000 a year check the box. Labor economist Catherine Ann Edwards, host of…
In August 2025, Erica Groshen, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was fired by President Trump. So she did what any newly unemployed person would do: she applied for…
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