Kyla Scanlon

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1,192 appearances 8 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 11 Aug

Kyla Scanlon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marketplace All-in-One · "Marketplace" Live · 11 Apr 2026 podcast

And what should be the action items that people have after they watch a video or listen to an episode, you know?

The Rundown · Can You Govern the Economy Like a Reality TV Show? (ft. Kyla Scanlon) · 25 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah, it sure feels that way.

It's good to see you.

Yeah, so I had the opportunity to interview Mary Daly and Tom Barkin, so the president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve and the president of the Richmond Federal Reserve.

And President Daly started talking about the end of the Great Moderation or what she felt like was maybe the exit of the Great Moderation, which is this period of the past 40 years where we've had relative macroeconomic stability because we've had independent central banks, we've had globalization.

We've had technology that's enabled us to predict business cycles a little bit better.

Central banks have gotten better at communicating so the markets have more insight into what's going on.

And so there's kind of this removal of all the volatility that preceded us from like the 1980s and before.

And then President Barkin started talking about how he feels like the persistence of uncertainty is kind of the biggest issue that we could be facing in 2026.

And so after that interview, I was like, wow.

And I just became obsessed with this idea of the great moderation that, you know, we study in school and we learn about economics.

But I never had really thought about the fact that we might be exiting it.

And a lot of people thought that we exited the Great Moderation after 2008 when we had the Great Financial Crisis.

We perhaps entered this era called the Great Stability, where the 2010s were almost like an ambient period, more or less, until Donald Trump came along and introduced a fair amount of volatility to markets, but nothing like we've experienced in the second term so far, just objectively.

And the goal of this piece was to sort of look at the great moderation and then talk about what I think we might be headed into, which is the great entertainment.

And so I tried to trace the beginning of the United States as an entertainment first country, of course, beginning with Ronald Reagan, who was the entertainer president, the great communicator.

And then tying it into what is now the second Trump presidency, where he is a reality TV star.

And I think the way that he does social media, the way that the White House is doing social media, it just really all feels like we're a part of some version of The Apprentice, some version of a show that he's having a lot of fun and not a lot of people are other than him.

So the goal of the piece was just to illustrate that.

Yeah, I mean, I think the consequences are sort of the taco situation that we keep on ending up in, where, like, the bond market has to be the one arm of government.

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