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The spat over VAT
If you've ever passed through airport customs overseas and been refunded a VAT — or value added tax — for souvenirs, you've benefited from the VAT s…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)
The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. But the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather forecasting…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future
Today on the show, we discuss why the IRS is sharing some taxpayer information, why bonds and stocks both fell, and how robots will replace you,or at…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
What keeps a Fed president up at night
"There's no bad weather, only bad clothing." That's the motto of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where Austan Goolsbee is president. As economic…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?
Today on the show, we meet Canada's new Prime Minister, economist Mark Carney.
What's it like when your former job — being a non-political banker who…
11 months ago
What's so bad about a trade deficit?
President Trump claims a main goal of his crippling tariffs is to address the U.S. trade deficit. So is the U.S. trade deficit a problem? On today's …
11 months ago
Tariffied! We check in on businesses
Trump's wave of tariffs is here. Just about everyone in the world of business is still processing exactly what this means. It's a massive, widespread…
11 months ago
How states are scooping up federal workers
It's Jobs Friday and all eyes are on government workers. Will the Trump administration's layoffs finally show up in the latest jobs report? Today on …
11 months ago
Why the great vinyl shortage is over
There have now been a few major vinyl booms. And unbeknownst to many, a small village in the Czech Republic has been responsible for manufacturing a …
11 months ago
What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you
Billions of tech dollars flowing into a community to build data centers should transform a local economy ... right? Well, maybe not.
On today's episo…
11 months, 1 week ago