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We sat down and talked with Cole Folwell a 2019 Notre Dame, Political Science graduate. Cole's path as a trader at Citi is far from traditional. He talks about his experiences at Citi and how that's helped him to transition into his new role at Roca news. As Head of Growth for Roca, Cole talks to us about the state of news today and why he felt compelled to right the ship with Roca. 

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Rudi Bachmann is the Stepan Family College Professor of Economics at Notre Dame.

Recently, he co-authored a paper, https://www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/ajkpbs/ECONtribute_PB_028_2022.pdf, that gained a lot of traction on Twitter. We sat down with Rudi to discuss the paper and Germany's reliance on Russian energy. 

Rudi's Twitter

VoxEu Article regarding the paper

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Alison is an alum of and former associate director of advising services in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame. Currently, she splits her time authoring children's books, like "Ready Regan?", and hosting the podcast "The Open Book Test", where she talks to recent Notre Dame grads to discuss why they made the decisions they did as to major, career path etc. and together they reflect on how that all worked out. 

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Spencer and Tommy are Notre Dame undergrads studying economics and finance. Aside from their roles at the Idea Center, they are sometimes TAs, and all the time music connoisseurs. They produce a weekly roundup of bit size news pieces. If you're interested in signing up for Nuggies (which you should be!) you can follow the link below. 

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We dive into the fifth and final dialogue of Angrynomics and...alleviate our anger?

Thanks for listening everyone!!!

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We dive into the fourth dialogue of Angrynomics and....redistribute our anger amongst ourselves?

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It's part 1 of our long-awaited inaugural book club. It's a long one, so buckle up settle in, and grab your book. We're talking about Angrynomics.

In the episode, we mention a few resources. You can find the links below

• Gentzkow and Shapiro (2010) “What Drives Media Slant?” - https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/biasmeas.pdf
  
• Jonathan Haidt “Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind
  
• Russ Roberts “The Numbers Game: The Paradox of Household Income” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU2IT8rl6c
  

Stephen Vukovits is a senior here at ND majoring in economics and is the co-president of the Federal Reserve and Fiscal Policy Challenge Club on campus.

Book Club Details

The first rule of Book Club is to TELL EVERYONE ABOUT BOOK CLUB

• We're reading Angrynomics by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan
• We will have on some special guests to dive into the book
• Over the next 9-10 weeks we will be releasing episodes relating to the 5 parts of the book
• Episode 1 will cover the first two parts of the book

Emily ensures research projects move forward successfully alongside the leadership of research faculty. She works with partners to initiate research designs, collects and analyzes data for each project, and prepares results for future audiences. Emily earned her BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the LEO team full-time, she interned as one of LEO’s undergraduate research assistants.

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Kirk Doran is the Henkels Family Collegiate Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Doran's research focuses on issues in labor economics, innovation economics, and international migration, with a particular focus on human capital complementarities. His work has examined the implications of large migrations of top scientists on the productivity and knowledge generation of their peers. Recent work has focused on the role of externalities, collaboration, and geographic distance in knowledge production, the impact of top prizes on the intellectual content of their recipient's work, and the impact of highly skilled immigrants on firms which randomly receive them.

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