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Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
Apr 18, 2026Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of copium after they fat-fingered and got rinsed? Or maybe they farmed during a yes-fest o...
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
Apr 14, 2026The United States has been at war with Iran since February 28th. And for a month and a half, Iran’s main leverage over the U.S. has been their control over the Strait of Hormuz — a key global shipping...
BOOKstore Economics
Apr 10, 2026How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a bookstore is a highly valuable and contested piece of commerc...
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Apr 08, 2026Live event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You might find yourself wondering if there will be layoffs. And yo...
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Apr 04, 2026Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort of product-specific inflation), shrink the size of the prod...
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Apr 02, 2026Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting wi...
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
Mar 28, 2026LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window? On today’s show, ho...
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
Mar 26, 2026When you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than the physical form of the book itself. But content and the form are both cru...
Inside a BOOK auction
Mar 21, 2026In the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever invented. From “The Wealth of Nations” to “Das Kapital,” bo...
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
Mar 18, 2026The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly seen them at the pet store or the fish tank at your dentist's o...