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Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages
Aug 20, 2025Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange of goods and services. Some of these trade barriers a...
When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI
Aug 15, 2025For 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. All over TikTok, tons of people have posted video...
What happens when governments cook the books
Aug 09, 2025After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – ...
Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer
Aug 06, 2025LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. (PM+ supporters get a 10 percent discount off their tickets. Listen to the July 8th bonus episode to get the code!) In economics, a market is a plac...
Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry
Aug 06, 2025LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide what they want to buy, and private enterprise r...
Would you trust an economist with your economy?
Aug 02, 2025Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately, economists are feeling the burn acutely. In fact, President Trump ju...
Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting?
Jul 30, 2025LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. There are occasional incentives in business that make it very profitable to do bad things; maybe cheat at the game and steal other people's ideas, o...
The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel
Jul 25, 2025LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied American steel company U.S. Steel, it was still 2023, just befor...
Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on
Jul 23, 2025Although 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 in this week's lesson is: How do we decide? Why doe...
Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing?
Jul 18, 2025It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on... manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been working to try and make the U.S. a manufacturing powerhouse aga...