Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs Elizabeth Warren Right About Private Equity?
Season 1 Episode 52
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren blames private equity for many of the issues in our economy. She plans to reign it in and regulate it with he…
6 years, 4 months ago
College Admission (In)Justice: Harvard and Beyond
Season 1 Episode 51
Getting into the right college is arguably more important than ever, which has put the justice or injustice of admissions processes in the spotlight.…
6 years, 4 months ago
What It Takes To Win The Nobel Prize In Economics
Season 1 Episode 50
On this episode, Kate and Luigi explain how to win the econ Nobel, why it's important, and they attempted to predict who the 2019 winner might be. Ho…
6 years, 4 months ago
Economic Research: Nothing Precisely or Precisely Nothing?
Season 1 Episode 49
On this episode, you're going to hear how the sausage gets made in economic research as Kate and Luigi personally investigate whether private equity …
6 years, 5 months ago
Should We Let Walmart Regulate Itself?
Season 1 Episode 48
In the last few weeks, we've seen two examples of seeming corporate self-regulation. One is Walmart's decision to end all handgun ammunition sales, a…
6 years, 5 months ago
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders
Season 1 Episode 47
Many are praising a recent Business Roundtable announcement that corporations should serve stakeholders as well as shareholders. On the surface, this…
6 years, 6 months ago
Are Stock Buybacks Evil?
Season 1 Episode 46
Are stock buybacks evil? A lot of politicians seem to think so. Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer wrote an op-ed in the New York Times this y…
6 years, 6 months ago
Universal Basic Income: Why and How?
Season 1 Episode 45
If you've been paying attention to Andrew Yang's Democratic presidential campaign, you're probably familiar with the concept of universal basic incom…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Student Debt Crisis: There's No Such Thing As A Free College
Season 1 Episode 44
With Democratic presidential candidates making the student debt crisis one of the central issues of the 2020 race, Kate and Luigi give an in-depth ec…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Mickey Mouse Monopoly Club
Season 1 Episode 43
Last episode, Kate and Luigi discussed how the patent system creates a temporary monopoly designed to make the incentives to innovate. But the real q…
6 years, 8 months ago