Last month, the world narrowly avoided a cyberattack of stunning ambition. The targets were some of the most important computers on the planet. Computers thatRead More »The hack that almost broke the internet

In the past few months, the price of gold has gone way up – even hitting a new high last month at just over $2,400Read More »Why Gold? (Classic)

Karen McDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she saw something odd outside her window: a groupRead More »Zombie mortgages are coming back to life

Today on the show, the story of the modern consumer movement in the U.S. and the person who inspired it: Ralph Nader. How Ralph Nader’sRead More »The birth of the modern consumer movement

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2021.) Millions of American workers in all sorts of industries have signed some form of noncompete agreement. Their pervasivenessRead More »Hire Power (Update)

About thirty years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan woke up to the news that the temple he and his clan used had been broken into. TheRead More »The case of the stolen masks

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2023.) Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions among AmericansRead More »How unions are stopped before they start (Update)

For the last year and a half, the story of FTX has focused largely on the crimes and punishment of Sam Bankman-Fried. But in theRead More »FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy