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Episode 348: Error Corrections
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 tu…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 347: Workplace Harassment with Vince White
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. …
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 346: Are the Rich Killing Social Security?
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 th…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 345: Did Masks Save Lives?
Economist Bryan McCannon gives us two things to think about this week: his research into whether covid mask mandates saved lives, and that journal ed…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 344: Burning Man
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 c…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 343: What About Unions?
Union membership in the private sector has been declining for decades, while union membership in the public sector has been increasing. This is consi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 342: The Start of the Season
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 epi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 341: Strangers With Candy
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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2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 340: Wrongfully Convicted
Michael Semanchik, Director of the Innocence Center, joins us to talk about freeing the wrongfully imprisoned, and reforming the criminal justice sys…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 339: The Meanings of Words
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 u…
2 years, 10 months ago