Make Me Smart
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Subscribers: 3579
Reviews: 15
Episodes: 250
AKF
Apr 21, 2023
Informative & entertaining. But the previous female host had better chemistry with the guy. I wish she'd come back.
Jason
Jan 27, 2023
Brianne
Nov 14, 2020
They keep me sane while delivering education about current topics.
Sep 24, 2020
Alex
Sep 19, 2020
Love this show!
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Big change coming to nursing homes
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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A revamp for Title IX
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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What you need to know about tariffs
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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A new day for labor organizing in the South?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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What we often get wrong about teens and screen time
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The rise of the (tax) resistance
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Why owning a car is getting so expensive
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Bonds, Boeing and Beyoncé
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The last mile of the inflation fight just got bumpy
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The EV market’s growing pains
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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A new round of student debt relief
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Let’s talk about earthquakes and the economy
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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The economic ripple effects of the Baltimore bridge collapse
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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It’s the end of an era for giant GE
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The water technology our future might depend on
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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How much does the stuff we buy actually cost?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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A steel industry tug of war
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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How our feelings about the economy are shaping the election
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Boeing and the “glass cliff”
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The political and economic power of white evangelicals
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The trickle-down effects of the Dobbs abortion decision
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Immigration and U.S. economic growth
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Government shutdown déjà vu
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Why are Americans so unhappy?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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America’s news deserts and the 2024 election
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Gaza’s food crisis
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Our annual cherry blossom episode
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Reddit, meme stocks and an IPO
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Thoughts on TikTok
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Boycotts, buycotts and the rise of consumer activism
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Class, income and a shift in American politics
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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What happened to Apple’s car?
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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The recession that’s always six months away
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Super Tuesday aftermath
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The global rise of right-wing populism
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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What’s left out of the inflation calculation
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The clash of two tech titans
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Whaddya wanna know about inflation?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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McConnell to end reign as Senate Republican leader
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Why anime is everywhere all at once
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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The work that awaits Congress in March
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Economic sanctions vs. boycotts
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Nvidia’s AI chips are the hot new thing
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Is spying really happening at U.S. ports?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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NATO’s place in the global economy
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Thoughts on Navalny’s death
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Biden is entering his TikTok era
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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What it’s like to be in Gaza right now
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Love, money and this economy
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The real danger behind Trump’s remarks on NATO
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Gender and the labor market
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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The snowball effect of high interest rates on the national debt
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The young (wealthy) Americans
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Immigration policy as economic policy
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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20 years of Facebook
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The car industry has a forced-labor problem
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Copyright law in the age of AI
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Our takeaway from the Big Tech CEO hearing
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Turbulence at Boeing
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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How popular food brands get away with using prison labor
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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The politics of a booming energy industry
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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What does a UAW endorsement mean for Biden?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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What Congress doesn’t want to talk about (tax hikes)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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What happens when private equity firms own nursing homes?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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When campaign-finance law looks like an unfunny joke
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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It’s a rough housing market out there, folks
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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More Big Tech layoffs. Is AI to blame?
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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What federal rulemaking power has to do with the economy
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The afterlife of MLK’s call for a guaranteed income
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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When substances are legal but dangerous
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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The federal budget loop de loop
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The risky business of bitcoin ETFs
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The death of social media as we know it
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Let’s talk about privilege in the workplace
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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From “Million Bazillion”: What’s a recession?
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The new in-space economy (rerun)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Who benefits from the welfare-to-work system?
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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A U.S. history lesson through food (rerun)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The real costs of reality TV
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Where’s the (lab-grown) beef? (rerun)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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How technology can help solve the water crisis in the West
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The dirty side of the fast-fashion business (rerun)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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And that’s a wrap on 2023
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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The battle over aid to Ukraine
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Taking the pulse of the U.S. bond market
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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What is MAGAnomics, actually?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Millennial mom dread
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Economics on Tap: Wastewater beer edition
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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COP28’s big question: who should pay for the climate crisis?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Is GM feeling iffy about EVs?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The circular economy and closing our resource loop
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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OpenAI’s “breakthrough”
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Who wants to work in Congress anymore?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The origins of America’s consumer-driven economy
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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The rise of stay-or-pay hiring
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Grief and work in the time of war
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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The governing work that remains to be done
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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What would a Starlink IPO mean for Elon Musk’s geopolitical clout?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The moral conundrum of carbon credits
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Has the movie business reached peak superhero?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Polarization, partisanship and threats to democracy
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Actors and studios strike a (tentative) deal
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The national debt is turning economists’ heads
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The promises and risks of carbon capture
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Elon Musk’s Starlink business going gangbusters
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Promises won’t pay for climate adaptation
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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AI safety takes center stage
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Where the fractured GOP goes from here
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Hydrogen’s potential as a climate solution
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Who profits from war?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Why the definition of “employer” really matters
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Spending cuts aren’t the only answer to the budget deficit
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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A new speaker of the House, finally
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Economic lessons from the video game industry
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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The work Congress could be doing
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Thoughts on Gaza
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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AI robocalls and ethical concerns for New Yorkers
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The “for-profit” in our health care system is showing
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Nuclear energy’s role in decarbonizing the economy
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Is a crackdown coming for Realtors?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The FDA’s formaldehyde fight
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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X faces fines for misinformation
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Was the Twitter clout-chasing really worth it?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Shareholders vs. stakeholders, and the purpose of a corporation
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Israel, Ukraine and U.S. military aid
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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A moment of economic peril
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Hot strike summer isn’t over
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The speaker ouster and its cost to our democracy
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Crypto goes to court
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Consumers are still living it up
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Washington’s looming deadlines (note the plural)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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The sliver of the federal budget Congress is fighting over
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Musk and the military industrial complex
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The real problem with passing the federal budget
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Why big GOP money matters less than ever
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Corruption is a bipartisan problem
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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What a shock to the economy could mean right now
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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AI and its role in elections
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The clash of Bidenomics and MAGAnomics
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What’s happening in Congress is not normal
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The quest for a perfect smile
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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What happened to stakeholder capitalism?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Air conditioning and political dysfunction
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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What you need to know about ranked choice voting
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Retail theft and capitalism today
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Our 1,000th episode!
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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What happened to economic conservatism?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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A new demographic reality is coming
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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How farmworkers were left behind
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The jumbled world of college sports
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Name that (economic) tune
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Who should get overtime pay?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The plastic recycling hoax
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The rise of homeownership sans insurance
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Smash the patriarchy … and the pumpkins
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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A glitch in the consumer-driven recovery
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Nvidia is riding the AI wave
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Our driverless car future
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The case to raise the inflation target
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Turmoil in the television industry
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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The misunderstood Inflation Reduction Act
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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What Los Angeles can learn from Detroit about addressing homelessness
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Artificial intelligence at work
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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A possible U-turn for driverless cars?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The clean energy economy has a NIMBY problem (rerun)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The (interim) Joint Chiefs of Staff?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Political dysfunction dents the U.S. credit rating
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The doctor will see you now … for climate anxiety
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The higher education business model is changing
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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DeSantis’ fiscal formula
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The wild grain chase
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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So … whaddya wanna know about student loan repayments?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Barbie, T-Swift and the Fed?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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A thrilling era for space discovery
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Another government showdown?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Hot on the job
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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When will the streamers’ content river run dry?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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It’s getting hot in here
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The “American Whitelash” and economic fear
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Hot labor summer is here
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Our wildest “Economics on Tap” episode yet!
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Hollywood on strike
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Insurers retreat from the coasts
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The dirty side of the fast-fashion business
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Behind the scenes: Kai’s trip to China with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Twitter vs. Meta drama continues
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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A blueprint for AI regulation in hiring?
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Has Twitter Meta its match?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The welfare-to-work industrial complex part 2
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The economic ripple effects of the Supreme Court’s big decisions
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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“Bidenomics” and the tricky art of selling an idea
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Recession? What recession?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The origins of the Fed’s 2% inflation target
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The welfare-to-work industrial complex
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The U.S. is graying. What does that mean for the economy?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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A medical brain drain out of Texas
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Titanic sub and the migrant shipwreck
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The economic status of Black Americans
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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What it really takes to live in New York City
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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The fringe medical group pushing anti-LGBTQ laws
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Reddit’s pricing protest
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Live from Seattle Part 2: We talk to Lindy West
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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EV batteries, industrial policy and you
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Make Me Smart: Live in Seattle
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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What’s behind the climate culture wars? (rerun)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Financially Inclined: What you need to know before investing in the stock market
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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A Fedspeak dilemma: to “skip” or “pause” rates?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” is in the spotlight
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The real story behind the red-blue hiring divide
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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YouTube’s 180 on misinformation
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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A tale of two debt dramas on Capitol Hill
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Extraordinary measures for extraordinary times
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May 31, 2023 |
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Where’s the (lab-grown) beef?
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May 31, 2023 |
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Inflation is still here, folks
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May 27, 2023 |
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The U.S. Treasury is running out of cash
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May 26, 2023 |
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Investors are asking ChatGPT for stock market advice
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May 25, 2023 |
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The pandemic’s panic-neglect cycle isn’t over
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May 24, 2023 |
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The thing living in the back of Jay Powell’s mind
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May 23, 2023 |
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The back and forth over the debt ceiling
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May 20, 2023 |
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The law that rules the internet lives to see another day
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May 19, 2023 |
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Everything you wanted to know about the debt ceiling
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May 18, 2023 |
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How streaming upended the TV industry
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May 16, 2023 |
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Let’s talk about taxes
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May 16, 2023 |
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The law that could bring Florida’s economy to a halt
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May 13, 2023 |
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The banking situation may not be over yet
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May 12, 2023 |
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The economic ripples of conflict in Sudan
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May 11, 2023 |
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Why the U.S. has failed to end poverty
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May 10, 2023 |
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News from the SLOOS
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May 09, 2023 |
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Women are driving the labor market
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May 06, 2023 |
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What happened to checks and balances for the Supreme Court?
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May 05, 2023 |
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ChatGPT’s growing carbon footprint
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May 04, 2023 |
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The resurgence of child labor in America
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May 02, 2023 |
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The U.S. could default sooner than we thought
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May 01, 2023 |
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Remember credit-default swaps?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The limits of economic sanctions against Russia are showing
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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What will Fox really pay Dominion?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The economic consequences of anti-trans legislation
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Is cable news breaking?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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What is the proxy for Twitter?
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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What car repos say about this economy
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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How accurate are economic forecasts?
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The new in-space economy
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Why the dollar’s dominance is hard to dislodge
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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The geopolitical center of gravity could be changing
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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What the Pentagon leak says about online anonymity
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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What to say when kids ask about the wage gap
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The new wave of AI tools is changing us
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Another week, another shooting
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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A warning about America’s industrial policy
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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The problem with Clarence Thomas’ luxe vacays
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Apr 07, 2023 |