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300 episodes Aug 18, 2025 – Oct 15, 2026
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This week’s indicators: Is The U.S. Treasury Department futzing with financial markets?; Is Patagonia’s pretty picturesque setting … for data centers?; Was the summer box office…
Our favorite entry on the regional economy from the latest Beige Book reveals a troubling development in higher education.
Why do so many fintech companies — like Square and Mercury — want to be banks? And what does it take to get there?
The era of friendly diplomacy has fallen to the wayside once again as the U.S. - Canada trade war enters a new phase.
With AI disrupting the workplace, is your job going to exist in ten years? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just the handbook for that.
People with jobs are not always eager to leave them … but there are exceptions. Call them job hoppers.
We go undercover at a big box store for an inside look at the secret shelf test the makers of Exploding Kittens use for their hit games.
Why are more than half of Gen Zers using investment dollars for sports gambling? It’s been eight years since sports betting became widely legal.
Why is the U.S. Treasury planning to buyback at least double the number of long-dated government bonds it usually does?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, marking the biggest month for ICE arrests of President Trump’s second term.
This week’s indicators: The teacher pay penalty; Meta’s massive settlement; Nike and Dick’s Sporting Goods are struggling.
Coyote vs. Acme will finally get its theatrical release on Friday after a years-long saga involving supposed tax write-downs, negotiations and multibillion-dollar studio deals.
Medicare for All could save the U.S. trillions… or maybe way less than that? In our second episode on Medicare for All, we look at the convoluted figures behind the hot political…
As midterms near, Medicare for All is back in the spotlight and Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has become the newest face for it.
The Trump administration recently admitted to pulling grants over politics. This practice could become more common. How do cities use grant money, and how will they adapt?
This week’s indicators: EV sales sputter in North America but flutter internationally; U.S. Treasury Yields … RISE!; a low-budget movie so terrible, it became a box office hit in…
Bankruptcy has a negative stigma surrounding it. But what if we told you it’s not as bad as you may think? In fact, economists think we should actually see more of it!
The best manager isn’t necessarily the best employee. Turns out it isn't so easy to predict what DOES make a good manager.
The Trump Organization has sued Capital One for closing its bank accounts. The organization says it did so out of political reasons.
Fenwick Island, Del. has only around 900 people on its voting rolls, but some of those registered voters are not human. Many are family trusts and a few are companies.
It’s Indicators of the Week! On today’s episode: Retirees get a bump in benefits; credit card debt delinquency at a historically high level; and the dating app Bumble on a serious…
Which letter best describes how the U.S. economy is shaped: C or K? We examine the arguments for both and why there’s so much disagreement over who’s faring best in today’s…
Rage. That’s what consumers are feeling right now. A new survey found consumer complaints hit a record high this year.
The total amount of investors using margin aka borrowing money to help pay for a trade is at an all time high of over $1.5 trillion. Is this something we should worry about?
