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341 episodes transcribedIn 2009, Bitcoin launched as the first cryptocurrency. Just under two decades, President Trump has signed an executive order to create the "Strategic...
Thirty years ago, the U.S. helped create the World Trade Organization, a group of countries linked by a common set of free trade agreements. But then...
China has set out its target for economic growth this year: around 5 percent. That's a hefty goal for a nation coming off a painful real estate slump....
The federal government spends millions of dollars each year on wildlife damage management, a program that includes killing thousands of coyotes. Yet t...
It's Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at interesting numbers from the news. On today's show, we have Southwest Airlines changing course on thei...
Uncertainty. That's the word-of-the-moment with tariffs, market swings and lots of economic volatility. It's also showing up in the Federal Reserve's...
Government cuts. Tariff uncertainty. Sticky interest rates. These are not helping the tumbling stock market. There's a sinking feeling among some Amer...
The Trump administration has some nits to pick with government spending: They don't think it should be counted as part of the country's GDP, that it s...
Bad Bunny's new album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS laments how Puerto Rico is changing. We look at whether tax breaks to newcomers contributed.Related episode...
Between the Trump administration wanting to change how GDP is calculated and DOGE accessing sensitive government information, statistical agencies are...
Even after Monday's pause on military aid to Ukraine following the Oval Office blow-up, it looks like a minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine is...
Who pays to use the Panama Canal and how much? These questions are part of the tensions between the U.S. and Panama after President Trump threatened t...
President Trump has been on an executive order-signing spree since returning to office, with 76 so far. Today we look at two of them. Can the Fed real...
Mardi Gras is in full swing. It's a crucial time for the New Orleans' economy, but the celebrations are cast behind the shadow of the recent terrorist...
It's Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at interesting numbers from the news. On today's show, we have potential cuts ahead for Medicaid, Starbuc...
When it comes to defense, one thing looks certain: European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are going to have to pay more. Co...
President Donald Trump has said that Canada should be the 51st state... and Canadians? Well, they're furious about it. The nation's former finance min...
The personal story of how an energetic lawyer got knocked off from her dream career and what she thinks that might mean for whether the government can...
We are back to answer YOUR listener questions. This time, we answer why bananas can be considered the 'unbothered fruit', what a flat income tax would...
Surprisingly stable chicken meat prices, a lawsuit threat against the Gulf of Mexico's name change, and the Trump administration's false claims about...
