Justin Lahart

speaker

135 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Justin Lahart’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 — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Journal. · It's Almost 2026. How’s the Economy? · 19 Dec 2025 podcast

And that makes them more willing to let people go and maybe less willing to bring a bunch of people on because they think, well, you know, any sort of shortages that I might face in the future, well, maybe AI will take care of them.

I think we should bring up another thing that's going on, which is that, you know, there have been some big layoff announcements.

But really, you know, there aren't a lot of layoffs and there's not a lot of hiring.

So this low hire, low fire environment does different things for different people.

So people who are older, who are comfortable in their job, they're not worried, right, because there's not a lot of firing going on.

But people who switch jobs more frequently, so a lot of lower-income people will switch jobs more frequently, they're having a very hard time because you can't switch as often.

Yeah, I think the big one of the big stories next year is going to be concerns about inequality.

I have a sense that that there is it's not just sort of

people who are middle class being sort of angered by people who are upper class.

But I think that even within people at sort of, you know, at the upper echelons, that someone who's like at the 95th percentile, that there's sort of growing anger about what's happening, you know, at the very, very top.

And I think that that is going to be an economic story and a political story as we go into the midterms next year.

Thanks so much.

Great talking.

Thanks a lot, everyone.

Showing 121–135 of 135 · page 7 of 7