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495 episodes transcribedFor most Americans, we just lived through the highest period of inflation in our lives. And we are reminded of this every time we go grocery shopping....
In economics, a market is a place (even virtual) where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods or services. Economists love markets. It's like all o...
After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firi...
LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide...
Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately, economists are fee...
LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. There are occasional incentives in business that make it very profitable to do bad things; maybe che...
LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied American steel...
Although it seems like the government can spend an endless amount of money, it cannot actually do all the things it wants to do. So the big question i...
It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on... manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been working to tr...
We all know the government uses taxes to pay for things. But what about using taxes to control behavior? This week on Summer School, Professor Darrick...
What people might picture when they think of "Made in America" ... might not look like the "Made in America" we have today.The U.S. does have a domest...
Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Si...
If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it up in one li...
There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the natio...
In 2019, President Trump tweeted: "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies." Today, the Trumps are all over crypto.There are memecoins fo...
Econ Battle Zone is back! On today's episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium to throw down against reigning champion Erika Bera...
The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But now, Preside...
Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023.Every year, the U.S. government spends more money than it takes in. In order to fund all that spendi...
What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been shrouded in sec...
When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were startled. Typically, presidents don't have the authorit...
