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Business

Why I joined DOGE

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

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...

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Are Trump's tariffs legal?

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were startled. Typically, presidents don't have the authorit...

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How much for that egg

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Recently, one of our NPR colleagues wrote a message to all of NPR saying he had extra eggs to sell for cheap, but needed a fair way to distribute them...

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Do trade deficits matter?

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

At the heart of President Trump's tariffs is this idea that we should not be buying more from other countries than they are buying from us. Basically,...