Wharton Business Daily

Wharton Business Daily

The Wharton School

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87Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
1,481
Episodes
303
Transcribed
117
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2017
First episode
10M
YouTube views

About Wharton Business Daily

Bringing together top leaders, innovators and renowned faculty from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania discussing topics that matter to consumers and the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher
The Wharton School
Category
business · business · business
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
12 Oct 2017
Latest episode
23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

303 of 1,481 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Social Security Is Running Out of Time

  2. 21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Why AI Is Forcing Companies to Rethink How Work Gets Done

  3. 16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Business of Signing a Superstar Athlete

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Social Security Is Running Out of Time

Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Good. How are you, Dan? It's always a pleasure. I'm doing well. Thank you. I don't think we've heard a lot about these reform ideas. So maybe you can give us some background on how they are all kind of coming about and what they would potentially mean for the future. Yeah. So as you pointed out, the Social Security Trust Fund will deplete in about six to seven years. So Penn Wharton budget model and the Social Security actuaries do independent calculations of this. And even though our methods are very different, we both reach around the same conclusion. That is about six to seven years. And so as a result, what happens when the trust fund depletes is that by law, benefits can only be paid equal to an amount of monthly payroll tax revenue that comes in. […]

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  • Kent Smetters
  • Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe
  • Kenneth Shropshire
  • Michael Platt
  • Maurice Schweitzer

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YouTube views
9,782,049
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.3 / 5
87 ratings
Spotify
4.6 / 5
30 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100

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99
Social presence
0
YouTube
93
Engagement
97

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