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Why are fewer Americans working the night shift?
The night shift isn’t for everyone, but it often means a boost in pay and a foot in the door. Yet a smaller share of Americans are working the gravey…
16 hours ago
Want a 2.5% mortgage? Buy it.
Remember those juicy mortgage rates from back in 2021? You don’t actually need a time machine to get one today. You just need to find someone willing…
1 day, 23 hours ago
The anxiety rattling China’s youth
China will soon unveil its economic blueprint for the next five years, including a target for economic growth. This comes as consumption is down, wag…
2 days, 23 hours ago
Why Paramount went looney tunes for Warner Bros.
Paramount Skydance is making a $110 billion play for Warner Bros. Discovery, and with it intellectual property like Harry Potter, Batman, and subsidi…
3 days, 23 hours ago
Should the families of organ donors be compensated?
Two economists get into the business—and stakes—of organ donation, and they argue why the government should financially compensate their families.
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4 days, 23 hours ago
ICE is bad for business, heat is bad for coffee, and sci-fi is bad for markets
It’s … Indicators of the Week (now on YouTube!), our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.
On today’s episode: …
1 week ago
How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia's war
Russia exports billions of dollars worth of fish a year across the world. But after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. banned imports of Russian fish.…
1 week, 1 day ago
What an Epstein recording reveals about how elites get jobs
What do the latest batch of documents tell us about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and elite networking? Quite a bit. Today on the show, we a…
1 week, 2 days ago
Do traders who place big bets make big money?
We’re going whale watching today. No, not orcas or great blues, but financial traders that place big bets on something called options. On today’s sho…
1 week, 3 days ago
Why there are roving rotisserie chicken mobs
You asked, we answered.
On today’s show, we tackle questions from our dear listeners on whether AI interviewers are biased, what the heck M2 money su…
1 week, 4 days ago