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The reality stopping water pipelines to the parched western US
With so much water in the eastern U.S., why can't the region pipe some of it to its drought-prone neighbors in the West? This perennial question nags…
1 year, 1 month ago
Running the numbers on deportation, interest rates and math
Why haven't American 8th graders' math scores recovered? Does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actually have the resources to make all the d…
1 year, 1 month ago
Canada's key resource against Trump's potential trade war
Canadians have a key leverage point if President Trump makes good on his threat to impose 25% tariffs: oil. We talk to a business journalist with the…
1 year, 1 month ago
Federal hiring is about to get the Trump treatment
President Trump is making big moves to shrink and reshape the federal workforce. He's offered buyouts, instituted a hiring freeze, and called for pri…
1 year, 1 month ago
The cautionary tale of a recovering day trading addict
The story of a man who started buying and selling stocks as a hobby ... and got seriously addicted. We also speak with a neuroeconomist about the hum…
1 year, 1 month ago
How GoFundMe can affect your FEMA eligibility
With the LA wildfires still burning, we were left with a lot of questions. Today, we answer two of them: whether GoFundMe campaigns could interfere w…
1 year, 1 month ago
Why China's DeepSeek AI is such a big deal
Indicators of the Week unpacks numbers from the news. This week, we delve into what President Trump's first AI announcement reveals about the economi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Why Trump's potential tariffs are making business owners anxious
A freshly re-inaugurated President Trump is reportedly considering making his first moves on tariffs: a 10% tariff on Chinese imports and a 25% tarif…
1 year, 1 month ago
Go ask ALICE about grocery prices
Grocery prices have gone up 27 percent since before the pandemic. And high prices are especially painful for lower income households, who have less w…
1 year, 1 month ago
Add to cart: Greenland
President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States take "ownership" of Greenland has raised a lot of eyebrows. Can the U.S. just buy itself th…
1 year, 1 month ago