Podcast Episodes

Episode 348: Error Corrections

Season 1 Episode 348

From time to time, listeners write to tell us what we’ve gotten wrong. This week, we go back through predictions and analyses we’ve made that have turned out to be wrong.

Main episode: 12:09

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 347: Workplace Harassment with Vince White

Season 1 Episode 347

Attorney Vince White joins us this week. Vince’s law firm does more workplace harassment and sexual discrimination cases than any other US law firm. His firm also handled some of the Harvey Weinstein…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 346: Are the Rich Killing Social Security?

Season 1 Episode 346

Robert Reich (not an economist) recorded a video recently in which he claims that the rich are not paying their fair share of Social Security. But the calculations he uses to prove his point are fund…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Episode 345: Did Masks Save Lives?

Season 1 Episode 345

Economist Bryan McCannon gives us two things to think about this week: his research into whether covid mask mandates saved lives, and that journal editors were afraid to publish his results.

Foolishn…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 344: Burning Man

Season 1 Episode 344

Burning Man, a modern day Woodstock, occurs each year in the desert. This year brought 87,000 people together to live, if only for a few days, in a cooperative nirvana. We take some time to look at t…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 343: What About Unions?

Season 1 Episode 343

Union membership in the private sector has been declining for decades, while union membership in the public sector has been increasing. This is consistent with workers voluntarily choosing not to uni…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 342: The Start of the Season

Season 1 Episode 342

The Republicans held their first primary debate. What they said wasn’t interesting. What they didn’t say was.

Foolishness of the week: 07:00 Main episode: 09:10

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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 341: Strangers With Candy

Season 1 Episode 341

Economist Art Carden joins us this week to talk about his popular book, Strangers With Candy.

Foolishness of the week: 04:27 Main episode: 18:01

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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 340: Wrongfully Convicted

Season 1 Episode 340

Michael Semanchik, Director of the Innocence Center, joins us to talk about freeing the wrongfully imprisoned, and reforming the criminal justice system to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictio…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 339: The Meanings of Words

Season 1 Episode 339

The point of communicating is to transfer thoughts from one person’s brain to another. In most forms of human communication, words are the tools we use. But if the two people don’t share common defin…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago