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Episode 269: A Conversation with Award Winning Students, Pt. 2
This week, we talk with the economics students of Mount Hebron High School who have won the state economics championship 16 times, the national champ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 268: A Conversation with Award Winning Students, Pt. 1
This week, we talk with the economics students of Mount Hebron High School who have won the state economics championship 16 times, the national champ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 267: Ten Years of ObamaCare
Now that a decade has passed since the Affordable Care Act reached full implementation, it’s a good time to look back at what we were promised, what …
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 266: Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and the Common Good
The Catholic Church likes subsidiarity. Politicians like federalism. Economists like free markets. It turns out that, if you can adequately define “t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 265: Higher Education Fraud?
Is there a massive class action suit awaiting colleges and universities that promise certain educational outcomes and don’t deliver? Colleges and uni…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 264: Should Cities Invest in Sports Stadiums?
Politicians often argue the benefits of raising taxes to pay for sports stadiums, citing all the economic benefits that accrue from attracting major …
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 263: The Fall of Amazon
The life cycle of birth, maturation, death, and new life plays out in markets in the same way and for the same reasons. Entrepreneurs come up with ne…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 262: David Friedman on the Gold Standard
David Friedman joins us to talk about the gold standard: why one existed at all, why we went off it, and what would happen if we reinstituted it.
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4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 261: $30 trillion
The federal debt recently crossed the $30 trillion mark, making the debt 50% larger than the entire US economy.
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4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 260: Shortages at Home, Starvation Elsewhere
Americans are so used to having goods available to them at low prices, in expansive variety, and in apparently limitless quantities that sporadic sho…
4 years, 4 months ago