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  • Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)

    Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)
    2025/04/17
    The current economic upheaval has lots of us scrambling for our glossaries and history books.

    Today on the show, the editor-in-chief of Investopedia walks us through three vocab terms — spanning topics from tariff history to market volatility — that are spiking on the website lately.

    Related listening:
    What can we learn from the year's most popular econ terms?
    What's a moneyline bet anyway? (Apple / Spotify)
    Why tariffs are SO back (Apple / Spotify)

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  • Did Trump enable insider trading?

    Did Trump enable insider trading?
    2025/04/16
    On the morning of April 9, President Trump posted on Truth Social "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT." Around four hours later, he announced a pause on some new tariffs, causing a stock market spike. Now, Democrats are demanding an investigation into possible insider trading. But were Trump's posts actually insider trading?

    Related episodes:
    Morally questionable, economically efficient (Apple / Spotify)
    An insider trader tells all

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  • The spat over VAT

    The spat over VAT
    2025/04/15
    If you've ever passed through airport customs overseas and been refunded a VAT — or value added tax — for souvenirs, you've benefited from the VAT system. But President Trump says VAT is unfair to the U.S. On today's episode, we learn what VAT is and what it isn't.

    Related episodes:
    What's so bad about a trade deficit? (Apple / Spotify)
    Tarrified! We check in on businesses (Apple / Spotify)
    Why there's no referee for the trade war (Apple / Spotify)

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  • How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)

    How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)
    2025/04/14
    The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. But the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather forecasting a more crowded space. Today on the show, the value of an accurate forecast and how the Trump administration's early moves are clouding the government's future forecasting. This piece originally aired in November 2024.

    Related stories:
    Hazard maps: The curse of knowledge (Apple / Spotify)
    Should we invest more in weather forecasting?
    After a year of deadly weather, cities look to private forecasters to save lives

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  • IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future

    IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future
    2025/04/11
    Today on the show, we discuss why the IRS is sharing some taxpayer information, why bonds and stocks both fell, and how robots will replace you,or at least most of your chore wheel, in the near future.

    Related episodes:
    Why are stocks and bonds both falling?

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  • What keeps a Fed president up at night

    What keeps a Fed president up at night
    2025/04/10
    "There's no bad weather, only bad clothing." That's the motto of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where Austan Goolsbee is president. As economic weather conditions stay unpredictable, Austan tells us how he's gearing up for tariffs, inflation, and more.

    Related episodes:
    The Fed cut rates ... now what? (featuring: Sasquatch) (Apple / Spotify)
    Tariffied! We check in on businesses (Apple / Spotify)
    A chat with the president of the San Francisco Fed (Apple / Spotify)
    Is the economy going stag(flation)?

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  • What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?

    What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?
    2025/04/09
    Today on the show, we meet Canada's new Prime Minister, economist Mark Carney.

    What's it like when your former job — being a non-political banker who decides a country's interest rate — bleeds into your now-political decisions on everything?

    Related episodes:
    A polite message from Canada to the U.S. (Apple / Spotify)

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  • What's so bad about a trade deficit?

    What's so bad about a trade deficit?
    2025/04/08
    President Trump claims a main goal of his crippling tariffs is to address the U.S. trade deficit. So is the U.S. trade deficit a problem? On today's show, why we'll never have a trade surplus with every single country; what the benefits of a trade deficit are; and whether or not the trade deficit affects jobs.

    Related episodes:
    Tariffied! We check in on businesses (Apple / Spotify)
    Why there's no referee for the trade war (Apple / Spotify)
    Common economic myths debunked (Apple / Spotify)

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