Hustle Economics with Tim Birt

Hustle Economics with Tim Birt

Tim Birt and John Hope Bryant on Money & Wealth. Tim Birt bought a truck with no bed on it. Then he got a twelve-thousand-dollar dump trailer without spending a dime. Then he turned a five-thousand-dollar down payment into a building worth close to a million. That...
Unpacking the NFL with Jed York

Unpacking the NFL with Jed York

Jed York and John Hope Bryant on Money & Wealth. The NFL is a business unlike any other in America, and very few people get to see how it runs from the owner’s chair. This week one of them sat down with me. Jed York is the CEO of the San Francisco 49ers. In...
The Economic Arc of Black America

The Economic Arc of Black America

I recorded this episode in New Orleans, a city whose story runs through Haiti, France and the Louisiana Purchase, which felt like the right setting. The assignment I gave myself was ambitious: four hundred years of Black economic history, from 1619 to now, told in...