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Talking Geopolitics

Epizode

Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers

Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)

You bet your life insurance

Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)

Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?

Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)

What makes a toy go viral

How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)

Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)

Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine

New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast

Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?

Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)

Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal

Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)

How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)

Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?

We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?

Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets

The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough

Can computer hackers get inside your mind?

It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?

Two indicators for lowering the rent

Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?

There's no business like dough business

The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes

The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake

Vacation and why Americans take so little

Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence

The secret meeting that launched OPEC

Diary of a WNBA negotiator

How we got free agents in baseball

How to make a BOOK into a bestseller

Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights

Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China

Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs

Do prediction market bettors make anything better?

How to get through the Strait of Hormuz

BOOKstore Economics

A pro-worker experiment in private equity

The simple math of the big bill

The potato-shaped loophole in free trade

Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation

Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment

Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry

Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting?

Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on

Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy

Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer