Feb 2, 2022
Americans are so used to having goods available to them at low prices, in expansive variety, and in apparently limitless quantities that sporadic shortages are shaking up our lives. Yet, what we experience as an inconvenience, others in the world experience as starvation. Humans’ default condition is not one of...
Jan 26, 2022
The Chosen is a remarkable TV series on two counts. It is the largest crowdfunded effort of its type, having raised more than $10 million and attracted over 150 million downloads over its two seasons. It also manages to depict stories from the New Testament in a way that is attractive to atheists and people of faith...
Jan 12, 2022
Even in the absence of inflation, a dollar in the future is less than a dollar today simply because it exists in the future. Humans have figured out how to use this fact to invent things like mortgages, installment payments, and subscriptions. We talk about the implications of the time value of money, then segue into...
Jan 5, 2022
Goods appear to be randomly missing in stores, and prices seem
to be rising. Much of what we're seeing is due to disruptions in
the supply chain. This week, we talk with industry insider Mikhail
Rasner about what's going on.
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Dec 29, 2021
Phil Magness joins us to discuss critical race theory: what is
it, and why is it controversial?
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