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

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

Actor/Filmmaker/Comedian Jake Lloyd Bacon knows nothing about economics. His best friend Brian is an entrepreneur and economics enthusiast who has set out to fill Jake's brain with as much of his economics knowledge as he can cram into it. In each edition of What The Heckonomics Brian dives into a different topic and the two discuss, in simple terms that Jake can understand, the ins, outs, and all arounds. A casual economics podcast for the lay man filled with facts, bad metaphors, and every now and then an informed opinion. A part of the Dragon Wagon Radio podcast network.

Episodes

November 14, 2020 63 mins

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 Deflation. Did you know not all inflation is a bad thing? Jake didn't. As usual the duo list off a litany of bad metaphors to make it all make sense including chat about movie ticket prices, c...

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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." Also Jakelandia & Brianlund go to war over shoes and chairs and the Star Wars prequels find relevance! There's also some Star Trek & Wakanda comparisons because NERDS, and the two find th...

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February 21, 2018 47 mins

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 creators more money, that they'll distribute that wealth to the working class and give a boost to the economy in its entirety. You'll have to listen to find out whether or not it works! ...

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December 23, 2017 55 mins

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!

What the Heckonomics is part of the Dragon Wagon Radio podcast network www.dragonwagonradio.com on social media @ItsDragonWagon

Theme song by Russell Henson @RustyFawkes

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December 4, 2017 49 mins

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's side, Externality!

What the Heckonomics is part of the Dragon Wagon Radio podcast network www.dragonwagonradio.com on social media @ItsDragonWagon

Theme song by Russell Henson @RustyFawkes

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