Doug Dowson

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89 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

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The marriage of pop star Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelsey this summer was dubbed America's Royal Wedding.

Fans were quite happy for the streets to be shut down around Madison Square Garden to make way for the nuptials.

Now swift

Is a billionaire.

Kelsey, through his NFL salary, podcasting, and endorsement deals, is only a millionaire.

And in 2025 he contributed perhaps a fifth of the Swift Kelsey household income.

So this wedding highlights a rare dynamic in modern relationships.

Women being the breadwinner.

Yeah, it's surprisingly rare.

I expected the numbers to be higher.

So women outnumber men by quite a bit at universities.

They are climbing the corporate ladder in ever larger numbers.

But when you look at relationships and you look at the sort of hard survey data, you'll see that at least in these couples where both partners earn money, these dual income couples

Just thirty percent of wives in America out earn their husbands.

Part of this imbalance reflects differences in occupations and working hours and pay.

But a growing body of research suggests it also reflects the preferences of the couples themselves.

I mean I think when you ask people directly about their opinions on these kinds of things, they're actually quite egalitarian.

So there's a survey that is conducted every few years called the World Value Survey.

It asks respondents whether the fact that a woman earned more than a man is going to cause problems or not.

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