Adam Posen

speaker

1,220 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 1 Sep

Adam Posen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Odd Lots · Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

You know, I I I understand it.

You can also go one step further, which is

Unlike say Google or Amazon when they were coming up.

Um where there were policy issues.

So actually a lot of us didn't realize what all the policy issues

Um and the economists who were hired

Some of them worked on policy, but most of them were like we said, working on sort of internal tools.

Now a lot of what the hiring, say for example, Anthropic is doing

by their own account about trying to envision what the right policies are.

To make the transition.

for AI work.

And

at least among the economists I know who've gone there, that's a sincere belief.

But it does make it more awkward.

Because it's one thing to say, Oh, I work for Amazon, I came up with the pricing auction model and that's why you get this and people say, You're ripping me off and you say, No, I'm not.

But when it's like someone who's, you know, a world class expert on the economics of innovation or of growth or whatever goes in and then starts saying, Well, you know, I they're gonna create three times as many jobs as they destroy and it's and the singularity is near and so you can't regulate it right now 'cause we're on the cusp of side.

They may sincerely believe it, but

It gets it people understandably discount their views once they're in house and getting money.

Showing 421–440 of 1,220 · page 22 of 61