Christopher Stiffler

Christopher Stiffler is an economics professor and senior economist at the Colorado Fiscal Institute in Denver, Colorado. But he’s also worked as a high school Latin teacher, trained as a professional wrestler and climbed all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks. He is a burro racer, public speaker, thru-hiker of the Colorado Trail and dabbles in things like ice climbing, stand-up comedy and cowboy poetry. He hosts the Non-Standard 14er Podcast and the Funny Muscle Podcast. He does his best writing after weekend trips backpacking into Colorado’s wilderness away from cell service. Christopher got his start explaining economics in 2009, writing an explanatory economics column for his small hometown newspaper in Bedford, Pennsylvania. The column was geared at explaining complicated economic concepts in simple metaphorical terms that everyone can understand. His published works include two children’s books titled, “An Igloo Half-Made" and "A Burro Named Bedford" and an economics book titled "Economics In-Other-Words; What Your Boring Economics Professor Tried to Teach You."