Kyla Scanlon is an economic commentator and writer, and the founder of Kyla Labs. She writes about money, markets, and the systems that shape them for an audience of over one million people across TikTok, Instagram, Substack, and YouTube, covering the pressing issues of the day – including tariffs, artificial intelligence, energy markets, and why the traditional rungs of the economic ladder have gotten harder to climb. Her debut book, In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work, was a New York Times bestseller and used hand-drawn diagrams to make the machinery of the economy clear. She writes monthly for New York Times Opinion, has a video partnership with Foreign Policy, and is a contributor and analyst at CNN. She is also a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and a research fellow at the American Institute of Boys and Men. Scanlon was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and the TIME100 Creators list.