Podcast Episodes

Episode 388: Supply Chain III

Season 1 Episode 388

Supply chain insider Mikhail Razner joins us again for what has come to be an annual update on the state of supply chains. Want to know why your boysenberry pie is more expensive? Listen in!

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Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Episode 387: The Supremes' One-Two Punch

Season 1 Episode 387

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Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Episode 386: Chase Oliver 2024

Season 1 Episode 386

Foolishness of the Week: 05:13 Main episode: 12:18

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Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Episode 385: Gaming

Season 1 Episode 385

Many of our listeners, and at least one of our hosts, are avid gamers, so it's natural that we'd come around to this topic eventually. Gaming companies are known to employ economists (often game theo…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Episode 384: A Difference in Interest Rates

Season 1 Episode 384

Canada’s central bank cut its interest rate. The European central bank cut its interest rate. But the Fed continues to hold its interest rate high. This will create a cascade of effects - some good, …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 383: The Justice and Practicality of Reparations

Season 1 Episode 383

If people who call for reparations for slavery want to be taken seriously, they must take their own arguments seriously first. And that requires bringing to bear the same scrutiny and law that we cur…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 382: The Value of College

Season 1 Episode 382

We’ve argued before that the value of a college degree was questionable. That was before covid. Since then, the value proposition has deteriorated markedly.

Foolishness of the Week: 05:15 Main episod…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 381: $1 Trillion in Interest

Season 1 Episode 381

The annual gross interest on the debt exceeded $1 trillion for the first time in history. Years ago, we warned that the combination of on-going deficits and inevitably higher interest rates would giv…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 380: Population Shrink

Season 1 Episode 380

A generation or two ago, people wrung their hands over the population explosion. What will happen, they said, when we finally have too many people! It turns out that, not only was overpopulation not …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Episode 379: Of Millionaires and Homeless

Season 1 Episode 379

Foolishness of the Week: 11:09 Main episode: 16:35

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Published on 1 year, 7 months ago