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kyla scanlon

@kyla.bsky.social
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wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ kyla.substack.com

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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
HOW TO GET RICH IN AMERICA In today's piece, I wrote about what happens when owning things is rewarded over doing things, the generational divides it creates, the casino economy that emerges from it, specifically the yolofolio, and how it's changing the way we think about work.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
THE CRISIS BEHIND THE HOUSING CRISIS In today's NYT piece, I wrote about how the housing fight is both about housing *and* retirement. We made the house do two jobs at once, and it's pitting the old against the young. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | The Housing Crisis Is Also a Retirement Crisis (Gift Article)
A home has stopped being just a place to live — it has also become an asset.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Is AI Going to Destroy Us or Not? New essay compiling some of the great research around AI and the labor market, the whole token-maxxing thing, who gets to be wealthy in the age of AI, what a job means in a time of enormous change, and what to do about all of it. Enjoy!
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Is AI Going to Destroy our Lives or Not?
dimensionality, freeze-dried food, the SpaceX IPO, and what to do about all of it
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Why is the stock market shrugging off... everything? Well, maybe it's betting that AI will save it and that the government won't let AI fail. Call it the AI put. My new piece in NYT Opinion on the market's reliance on getting rescued: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...
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Opinion | Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We've built an entire economy around selling people the feeling of control through bets, hacks, subscriptions, and optimization. But the model only works if people stay desperate. New essay on control and agency, financial nihilism, belief markets, the manosphere, and spectacle during war.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some exciting public events over the next few weeks!! Come hang out if you can! 🙂 March 29th, Los Angeles: with Kai Ryssdal and David Brancaccio at the Aratani Theater April 19th, Boulder CO: with Planet Money at Boulder Theater April 20th, Albuequerque, New Mexico: with Planet Money Links ⬇️
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New NYT Opinion from me: America’s debt math only works if the rest of the world believes in the US… but they’re starting not to. What does that mean for our future (and for all this debt)? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Way of Doing Business With the World May Cost All of Us
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Betting on Jesus returning by 2027 and the Backstreet Boys singing about crypto are kind of the same thing. Speculation and nostalgia are both exit strategies from the present, and neither provides answers. New piece on what happens when the economy grows without… people.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
HOW BETTING BECAME POLITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE In today's New York Times piece, I wrote about how prediction markets validate political events before Congress can respond, and how those market outcomes can end up deciding what's legitimate.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Audio version open.spotify.com/episode/2mGf...
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The Great Entertainment
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New piece attempting to synthesize the past few weeks: media logic, market structure, geopolitical trust, and lessons from history. The bond market, the Fed, Japan, AI hype vs. energy reality, and what happens when the infrastructure that made the show possible starts changing channels.
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The Great Entertainment
Can you govern the world like a reality TV show?
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW INTERVIEW I sat down with San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin to talk about what really matters in 2026. Are we headed for the 1970s or the 1990s? Why does the economy keep not breaking? And why should we count cranes?
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BETTING ON EVERYTHING In today’s Wall Street Journal, I wrote about how an economy with fewer stable paths is pushing young people toward low probability, high payoff bets in search of upside - even though this is not what people actually want.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In today's newsletter, I wrote about why everyone is gambling and why no one is happy
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wrote about the burning Waymos and gentle singularity and ragebait and how everything is coalescing into a giant contradiction kyla.substack.com/p/everything...
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Everything Feels Like It Doesn't Make Sense
Immigration, incentives, and the contradiction of Gentle Singularity
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wrote about the burning Waymos and gentle singularity and ragebait and how everything is coalescing into a giant contradiction kyla.substack.com/p/everything...
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Everything Feels Like It Doesn't Make Sense
Immigration, incentives, and the contradiction of Gentle Singularity
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
In dialogue with Jon Cohen, the author of Losing Big, about sports betting in the United States of America. We talk about the past, the present, and the future, and how we increasingly are turning psychological vulnerabilities into financial infrastructure. Enjoy! kyla.substack.com/p/gamblemeri...
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Gamblemerica: How Sports Betting Apps Rewired a Generation's Relationship to Risk
In dialogue with Jon Cohen on sports betting, dopamine, and the strange ways we turn human vulnerability into infrastructure
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We are living through massive technological change and are actively dismantling the very systems that are supposed to help us adapt. kyla.substack.com/p/the-four-p...
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The Four Phases of Institutional Collapse in the Age of AI
How democracy, expertise, and institutional memory are eroding during technological change - or @grok is this true?
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Rejection, convenience, and predictability are all core parts of the economy - think college kids trying to get jobs right now, Klarna and DoorDash and the defaulting NACHOs, and the downfall of Cartoon Network. What would CS Lewis think about where we are now? kyla.substack.com/p/economic-l...
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Economic Lessons from the Screwtape Letters
Rejection, Convenience, and the Budget Deficit
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sticker drop! All stickers designed by me! Put them everywhere. On your dog. On your friend. On your friend's dog. Enjoy! Proceeds support independent economics education (aka my next big project 🙂). Link in next post!
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The American economy isn’t built to think - it’s built to comply. Risk aversion is reshaping our politics, our education system, and our global standing. We’re raising a generation that’s optimized for survival, not innovation - and it’s costing us everything. kyla.substack.com/p/compliance...
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Compliance is the New American Dream
How risk aversion has shaped our schools, our government, and our global standing
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In NYT Opinion discussing (1) the viability of Trumponomics and (2) the increased warring among the MAGA populist, Wall Street conservative and tech futurist factions. We need an industrial revival in the US. But this isn't the way. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
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Opinion | Trumponomics Is a Delusion
Why an effort to reindustrialize America is likely to fail.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What's going on? A brief explainer, link in next post. kyla.substack.com/p/bonds-stoc...
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Bonds, the Stock Market, and China: What's Going On?
the largest tariff hike in history is here
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tariff Q&A: the Actual Inbox! I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs! kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
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Tariff Q&A: Welcome to the Actual Inbox
a brief comprehensive guide that hopefully answers all your questions
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tariff Q&A: the Actual Inbox! I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs! kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
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Tariff Q&A: Welcome to the Actual Inbox
a brief comprehensive guide that hopefully answers all your questions
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The plan is that there isn't one
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
He is right about that part
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Perhaps the question is - does it need to be so stupid? What is the discount rate of stupidity? How many mistakes should be avoided at the expense of lessons learned. Maybe that's the thing.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What's quite strange about the reshoring manufacturing argument is that it really does ignore all aspects of human capital. The only way to actually break foreign manufacturing dependencies (if that is indeed the goal) is to do national R&D investment with workforce development!
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Watch out World I am coming with my 90% wool / 10% cashmere blend sweater depicting volume traded up until the year 2000
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is probably the most important message out of any of the essays talking about the Trump administration.
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The boundaries between state power and private capital has disappeared and now the incentive to vote is a pure economic transaction which has concerning implications!
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What if he had won? How much would be different
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It does increasingly seem like we are unintentionally running various experiments on Gen Z and will change so many things about the phones, learning, socialization, etc from the lessons learned
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Mrs Melania Trump is trying to pay me Eighteen Million United States Dollars 🤯
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
so much can happen in 19 hours!
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Full post is below! But this week gave us the perfect trifecta of a context-dominated economy and I actually think some unrelated things could be illustrative of that: (1) The signal group chat leak (2) The studio ghibli AI trend (thread continued below) kyla.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...
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Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
The Signal chat, even more tariffs, and the value of meaning-making
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Full post is below! But this week gave us the perfect trifecta of a context-dominated economy and I actually think some unrelated things could be illustrative of that: (1) The signal group chat leak (2) The studio ghibli AI trend (thread continued below) kyla.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...
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Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
The Signal chat, even more tariffs, and the value of meaning-making
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Young people are extremely angry. Will Trump's policies actually fix things for them? kyla.substack.com/p/antisystem...
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Antisystem Youth and the Mar-a-Lago Accord
JD Vance's speech, the Fed meeting, and China
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Young people are extremely angry. Will Trump's policies actually fix things for them? kyla.substack.com/p/antisystem...
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Antisystem Youth and the Mar-a-Lago Accord
JD Vance's speech, the Fed meeting, and China
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Summarizing the news - bots, the manufactured recession, the market selloff, China, and more! kyla.substack.com/p/the-parall...
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The Parallel Economy
bots, manufactured recessions, and China
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So - is this an orchestrated economic slowdown or something else? In this piece, I talk about the role of tariffs, the embrace of isolationism, and the strategy behind a slowdown. I also talk about the role of AI in all of this. kyla.substack.com/p/an-orchest...
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An Orchestrated Recession? Trump’s Tariffs, AI, and the Future of US Power
Why Trump is Doing What He is Doing
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Matt Szabo @mjszabo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, made comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library, then approached the dais and was arrested.
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myself @losangeles.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Of course nothing makes sense anymore.” @kyla.bsky.social kyla.substack.com/p/gen-z-and-...
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Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress
AI, volatility, and changing institutions
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MartiniDude @martinidude.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
👍As a father of 2 GenZ’ers, the uncertainty of our times/ economy, & how tech has changed the world are astounding. As tech allows more isolationist worldviews, we are losing our sense of community. DOGE is an imminent danger for us all. - @kyla.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/g...
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Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress
AI, volatility, and changing institutions
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I've spent the last 8 months traveling to 20+ states, talking to young people about how they see their economic futures. I wrote about my findings. Gen Z faces a double disruption: (1) AI-driven technological change + (2) institutional instability. kyla.substack.com/p/gen-z-and-...
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Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress
AI, volatility, and changing institutions
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A news explainer that attempts to cut through noise on tariffs, trade agreements, unipolar vs multipolar, DOGE, the market reaction, and America’s role in the world. kyla.substack.com/p/fafonomics...
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FAFOnomics: How Chaos Became America's Economic Strategy
making sense of the news
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New video up! DeepSeek just built a groundbreaking AI model for $6 million. Meanwhile, the US just froze federal funding, potentially creating a constitutional crisis. This moment isn’t just about AI or China; it’s about five critical questions America must answer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=reU8...
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DeepSeek, the Federal Spending Freeze, and America’s Innovation Crisis
YouTube video by Kyla Scanlon
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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Trump’s first week back in office redefined power: - TikTok banned (briefly) - Trumpcoin creating $75B in paper wealth in 36 hours - Tariffs that could reshape global trade This isn’t just about politics—it’s about how the attention economy rules 2025. youtu.be/gwRm8r3QjW8?...
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The First Week: TikTok, Trumpcoin, and Tariffs
YouTube video by Kyla Scanlon
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