What podcasts say about Owen Zidar

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What Owen Zidar has said on podcasts

14 statements · 4 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 5 neutral

on American dreamPositiveOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
The American dream remains more alive than commonly believed.
“the American dream is more alive than you think, but it's not necessarily where you're looking.”
Listen at 6:55
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on Trade-based private businessesPositiveOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Businesses built from trade skills and local problem-solving can become highly profitable.
“Those businesses can become quite profitable and quite lucrative.”
Listen at 7:43
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on 1980s tax reformPositiveOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
The 1980s tax reform triggered rapid growth in pass-through businesses.
“This triggered a rapid growth in the number of pass-through businesses.”
Listen at 11:30
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on Pass-through businessesNeutralOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Pass-through businesses contain over half of business income and nearly half of workers.
“You have more than half of the business income in the economy is in pass-through businesses. You have almost half the workers working in pass-through businesses.”
Listen at 11:57
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on Protected local monopoliesNegativeOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Local protections restrict consumer choice, raise prices, reduce competition, and enrich incumbents.
“All these things serve to restrict consumers' options. to make more opaque the costs, to sort of raise prices and sort of reduce competition that makes these people richer than maybe they otherwise would be.”
Listen at 18:47
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on Congress tax-writing committeeNeutralOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Private business owners comprise about one-quarter of Congress’s tax-writing committee.
“we think a quarter of the tax writing committee of Congress was business owners, private business owners.”
Listen at 29:25
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on Mayors outside major citiesNeutralOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Business owners make up roughly 30–40% of mayors outside major cities.
“if you go to the mayors of the country outside of the major cities, it's like more like 30 to 40 percent.”
Listen at 29:31
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on Pass-through business incomeNeutralOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Pass-through business income accounts for over half of the top one percent’s income-share increase.
“more than half of the rise in the top 1% income share comes from pass-through business income.”
Listen at 33:15
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on Private business ownersNeutralOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Private business owners generally receive business income as profits rather than wages.
“most of the income that you receive from that business is going to come out not in the form of wages, but in the form of profits.”
Listen at 40:31
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on Private business ownersNegativeOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Private business owners can pay lower effective tax rates than equivalent salaried workers.
“they pay lower effective tax rates than a salaried person who is doing the exact same thing in a slightly different corporate form or corporate structure”
Listen at 41:09
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on Labor-market regulationNegativeOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Labor-market regulation benefits everywhere millionaires at low-skilled workers’ expense.
“regulation labor market seems to be sort of benefiting the everywhere millionaires at the expense of low skilled work.”
Listen at 45:54
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on AI and tactile service workMixedOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
AI will take time to fully disrupt tactile, local service work, if it ever replaces it.
“ai is going to take a while to fully disrupt and replace that work if it ever does”
Listen at 52:22
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on AI in skilled servicesNegativeOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
AI is likely to disrupt skilled-service industries more than tactile businesses.
“There are certain industries like these skilled services where I see more disruption because a lot of the day to day job is the kind of thing that AI is really good.”
Listen at 53:06
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on Mundane economic sectorsPositiveOct 23, 2026· Prof G Markets
Mundane economic sectors will offer many entrepreneurial opportunities in the future.
“That makes me optimistic that there will be a lot of opportunities for folks going forward in these mundane corners of the economy.”
Listen at 57:52
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