The Journeyman
Marlon Weems, Arturo Dominguez, Egberto Willies, Claudia Sahm, Kathryn Anne Edwards, Shari Dunn, Deidre Keller, Tanya Ray FoxIndependent analysis and commentary on politics, economics, media, and American culture—grounded in more than three decades of experience in finance.
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Jonny Quest: The Cartoon That Was Too Good For Television
Every so often, I like to step away from writing about politics, global markets, and the daily churn of breaking news to spend time with American culture—the television shows, music, movies, and other artifacts that helped shape how...
The Economy Is Strong. So Why Does It Feel So Bad?
Show: The Reality Check
Hosts: Marlon Weems and Egberto Willies
Guest: Kathryn Anne Edwards
Air Date: September 16, 2026
The Conversation
Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards joined Marlon Weems and Egberto Willies for an unusua...
Sports Is Never Just a Game
Guest: Tanya Ray Fox
Show: The Journeyman Unfiltered
Runtime: Approximately 56 minutes
Episode Summary
Sports journalist and cultural commentator joined Marlon Weems for a candid conversation about what sports reveal about race,...
Inflation Is Heating Up Just as the Economy Starts to Cool.
This morning’s data presents the Federal Reserve with an increasingly difficult challenge: the energy shock is no longer confined to energy.
The Producer Price Index rose 0.4% in August and 5.4% year over year. Goods prices jumped 1...
Venezuela: The Money Is Already Beginning to Move
Introducing Field Notes: These are meant to be timely, digestible updates on stories and ideas I’m already following—not another 1,500-word essay every time the facts move. Think of them as entries in an ongoing research notebook: ne...
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Storyteller. Former Wall Street executive. Independent journalist. Explaining how markets, money, media, and power shape everyday life.
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A political activist, author, blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer. He's a Progressive whose favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship.”
Founder of Sahm Consulting, former Federal Reserve and White House economist.
Labor economist, policy consultant, opinion writer at Bloomberg, and economics creator.
Shari Dunn, author of Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work (by Harper Business 2/25/25), is an accomplished journalist, former attorney, news anchor, CEO, and adjunct professor.
Everyone is entitled to my opinion. Sports, society and culture from a sports media veteran turned independent analyst and commentator. You probably know me as the woman constantly defending Lamar Jackson.
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