How Could Taylor Swift *Not* Be A Billionaire?

There are good years, and then there’s Taylor Swift’s 2023. Among her superlatives: best-selling global artist of the year, highest-grossing touring act of the year, and Time Person of the Year. Fittingly, 2023 was also the year Bloomberg proclaimed her a billionaire.

That last part is particularly interesting to yours truly, as I used to compile such numbers in my days as an editor at Forbes. So I leapt at the invitation to join NPR’s “Open to Debate” as a guest questioner for the recent episode...