Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English
By Dave Explains
Categories: Business, News, Business News
Dave spent twenty years moving freight. Now he spends seven minutes every weekday morning explaining what yesterday's money headlines actually do to your paycheck: gas, groceries, rent, the Fed, your credit card... in plain English, with his producer Kev reading the headlines and checking his math. No jargon without a translation. No politics. No predictions. Just what happened, who's lying to you about it, and the one thing to do about it today. Got a question for Dave? Email [email protected] ...Kev reads all of them.
12 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Six Hoover Dams for Nothing
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 012 — Wed Nov 11Inflation came in "hotter than expected," the whole bond market sold off over it, everybody's betting the Fed hikes — and I promised you the number and nobody put one on my sheet, so I don't have it. Oil's back over $92 with diesel…
- They Can't Hike a War
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 011 — Tue Nov 10Gas is under four bucks for the first time since July — CBS says — at least twenty-nine cents off the $4.29 I've been stuck on for two weeks, oil's at ninety, and some expert already knows it'll be $3.75 by Thanksgiving; how would he…
- If They're Calling You Back
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 010 — Mon Nov 9Nearly one in five of the workers companies replaced with AI are getting called back, and they're asking for more — take the job, and don't take the first number. Missiles hit Saudi Arabia and oil stayed under a hundred bucks anyway…
- Nobody's Sign Fell Eight Percent
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 009 — Thu Nov 5Oil fell more than eight percent in one day and it's back under a hundred bucks, the Dow had its best day in eighteen months, and I still don't have a pump number newer than $4.29 — day five — so now it's on you: Bill's rule says up…
- They Just Turned It Off
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 008 — Wed Nov 4The average car payment's a record $787 a month and now the automakers want a monthly fee for remote start and horsepower that's already built into the car — you paid for it, it's in there, they just turned it off. Oil went down then…
- Four Billion for the Gap
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 007 — Tue Nov 3Saudi Aramco said out loud its profit surged on "higher prices of refined products" — that's the gap — the same week a different Carl, Carl Icahn, is paying over four billion for two of Marathon's refineries, and I still don't have a…
- The Raise You Never Saw
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 006 — Mon Nov 2It's open enrollment week and an economist says health insurance ate your raise — if your job's premiums had grown three percent a year like they used to, pay would be growing point-two to point-three points faster, which on fifty…
- Jargon Jail: Refining Margin
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 005 — Fri Oct 30Exxon, Chevron and BP all had "blowout" quarters the day after Shell did, nobody handed me a dollar figure so I didn't say one, and the gap between the oil and your pump is still a record while gas sits at Monday's $4.29. GDP grew…
- The Gap Is Theirs
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 004 — Thu Oct 29Shell nearly doubled its profit on a record refining margin — that's the gap between the oil and your pump — and put five billion of it into buying its own stock while oil's still over a hundred bucks, so the six weeks keeps running…
- Minimum Payment on a Country
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 003 — Wed Oct 28It's Fed day, the decision's not in, and "everybody expects a hold" — same everybody that gave Carl three cuts in January, so I'll tell you tomorrow what they actually did; mortgages are 7.1% and people are reaching for riskier loans…
- Nobody's Baby Needs Cashmere
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 002 — Tue Oct 27Microsoft's handing sixty thousand people a "voluntary" packet, and I've been in that room — round two's never voluntary. P&G's selling a cashmere diaper on track for a hundred million a year, Manhattan rent hit a record $3,785 with…
- Second Worst Mood Since Disco
Dave Explains the Economy in Plain English — Ep. 001 — Mon Oct 26Americans are in their second-worst money mood since 1978, gas is $4.29 and a buck-twenty higher than last year, the Fed meets this week with a hike at a coin flip — and Dave doesn't think a hike fixes a gas price caused by a war…
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