
Wharton Business Daily
The Wharton School
4.4from 117 ratings
- 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.

23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Social Security Is Running Out of Time

21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why AI Is Forcing Companies to Rethink How Work Gets Done

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
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 87 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 30 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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