Episode
40. Harold Pollack on Why Managing Your Money is as Easy as Taking Out the Garbage
People I (Mostly) Admire · Sep 19, 2026 · 46 min
He argues that personal finance is so simple all you need to know can fit on an index card. How will he deal with Steve’s suggestion that Harold’s nine rules for managing money are overly complicated? Harold and Steve also talk about gun violence — a topic Harold researches as a public-policy professor at the University of Chicago — and they propose some radical ideas for reducing it. This…