Economist Russ Roberts Isn’t Worried About the Middle Class

“A LOT OF people think the middle class is dead, dying, hollowed out,” says Russ Roberts, an economist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and host of the podcast . “And that’s a view that’s held now increasingly by not just the left…but by conservatives, Republicans, and economists across the spectrum.” Roberts’ trademark optimism has been tested by the authoritarian shift of American politics in recent years, but he still sees quantitative reasons to celebrate the U.S. economy. He says leading