What The Heckonomics? : An Economics Podcast for the Rest of Us

What The Heckonomics? : An Economics Podcast for the Rest of Us


Latest Episodes

5th Edition : Inflation/Deflation
November 14, 2020

Holy Hell it's What the Heckonomics! This episode was recorded over TWO YEARS AGO! May 2018 to be exact and was lost, but was also found! So better late than never, right? Brian, the armchair economist, is learnin Jake all about Inflation and...

4th Edition : Tariffs & Trade Wars
March 19, 2018

The armchair economists are back for another edition of What The Heckonomics and this week Brian is learning Jake a lil' something about Tariffs and Trade Wars! Talking all about Trumps plans and his sentiment that "they are good and easy to win."...

3rd Edition : Trickle Down Economics
February 21, 2018

We're back and today we're talking about an economic concept that is called many things including Reaganomics and Supply-side Economics - but is most commonly known as Trickle Down Economics. The TOTALLY AWESOME theory that if you give the rich job...

2nd Edition : Net Neutrality/Rent-Seeking
December 23, 2017

On the second edition of What the Heckonomics, the duo dives into Net Neutrality and Rent-Seeking and the dangers of not having one, but having a lot of the other. There are kings and knights and mobsters and taxi cabs and broken analogies and more!...

1st Edition : Externality
December 04, 2017

Welcome to What the Heckonomics?! An Economics Podcast for the rest of us. After a brief introduction and some necessary disclaimers, Brian and Jake dive into explaining the thorn in the free market'