Hi, I’m Kyla.
Who am I?
I was raised in Kentucky and studied finance, economics, and data analytics at Western Kentucky University. My first jobs included trading options and selling cars, which is where I saw the opportunity to make finance accessible. During the pandemic, I began using whiteboards and social media skits to decode markets and economic trends for everyday audiences.
I am now working on my second book while contributing to The New York Times Opinion, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, among others, and am a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. I also make almost daily short-form videos across most of the main social media platforms.
Why does this newsletter exist?
I’ve been writing online for the past decade. I started a blog at 18 years old (called Scanlon on Stocks; naming things have never been a strength of mine) where I chronicled my thoughts about the stock market. Many of those thoughts were not very good. But I put them into the world.
This newsletter is a bit different. I currently publish once a month, and they tend to be long essays about AI, monetary policy, the labor market, and various interviews with Fed presidents and other great thinkers.
I am very interested in understanding WHY we talk about the economy the way that we do. That is my obsession, my driving force, the thing that my mind drifts to most in quiet moments. My goal with this newsletter is to explore the economy, but to also take you along, rather than lecture at you.
Why support it?
My work is mainly funded by three things:
Brand partnerships
Speaking opportunities
This newsletter
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