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The habitat banker
Dec 20, 2024Our planet is in serious trouble. There are a million species of plants and animals in danger of extinction, and the biggest cause is companies destroying their habitats to farm food, mine minerals, a...
How sports gambling blew up
Dec 18, 2024Sports gambling isn't exactly a financial market, but it rhymes with financial markets. What happens on Wall Street somehow eventually also happens in sports gambling. So in the 1980s, when computers ...
A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality
Dec 14, 2024Why do some nations fail and others succeed? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their work...
Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)
Dec 11, 2024The Smoot Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can we learn from them? Today on the show, we tell the nearly 100-year-old story of Smoot and Hawley...
There Will Be Flood
Dec 06, 2024Windell Curole spent decades working to protect his community in southern Louisiana from the destructive flooding caused by hurricanes. His local office in South Lafourche partnered with the federal g...
George Soros vs. the Bank of England
Dec 04, 2024As people learn more about Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, one story comes up over and over: a legendary trade that he played a small part in while he worked at George Soros...
How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach?
Dec 02, 2024The dreaded data breach notification... It tells you your personal data's been compromised and suggests steps you can take to minimize the potential harm. On today's episode, Kenny Malone pulls out a ...
Why you bought your couch
Nov 27, 2024You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because it was comfy. Or blue. Or the right price. But what if the style, the color, the cost, maybe e...
Title Pirates
Nov 23, 2024A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did: Lots of paperwork; a virtual closing. Pretty cut-and-dry. Gin...
The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)
Nov 20, 2024Mass deportations. What would actually happen—economically—if the President-elect follows through on promises to deport millions of people from America. We don't have to guess. Today we have two sto...