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About Deidre Woollard
Deidre Woollard is a financial writer and host based in Alexandria, Virginia. She has a deep interest in housing and solving issues of wealth inequality.NBN Episodes hosted by Deidre:
January 5, 2026
Stealing The Future
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX …
November 18, 2025
The Price of Democracy
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining ou…
October 17, 2025
The Invention of Infinite Growth
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dangerous ideas. It …
September 5, 2025
The World's Worst Bet
The triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by conflict, populism, and economic nationalism. In The World's Wo…
August 20, 2025
Robin Hood Math
Everything we do today is recorded as data that’s sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made governmen…
August 13, 2025
Perfect Communities
The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class America…
August 11, 2025
Principles of Bitcoin
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. By…
August 2, 2025
The Almightier
The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and W…
February 27, 2025
The Infrastructure Book
Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet – all this infrastructur…
February 14, 2025
The Uncomfortable Truth About Money
We are all stuck in a money cage. Money isn’t the most important thing, but it is a thing and you can’t get away from it. Birth costs money and death …
February 11, 2025
Land Power
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power…
February 1, 2025
Gambling Man
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites…
January 31, 2025
The Paradox of Debt
When we talk about debt and its impact on our economy, we almost always mean “government debt.” However, this is only a small part of the picture: ind…
January 24, 2025
America Under the Hammer
As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Pre…