Sports gambling isn’t exactly a financial market, but it rhymes with financial markets. What happens on Wall Street somehow eventually also happens in sports gambling.Read More »How sports gambling blew up

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The Smoot Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can we learn from them? Today on the show,Read More »Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)

Windell Curole spent decades working to protect his community in southern Louisiana from the destructive flooding caused by hurricanes. His local office in South LafourcheRead More »There Will Be Flood

As people learn more about Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, one story comes up over and over: a legendary trade that heRead More »George Soros vs. the Bank of England

The dreaded data breach notification… It tells you your personal data’s been compromised and suggests steps you can take to minimize the potential harm. OnRead More »How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach?

You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because it was comfy.Read More »Why you bought your couch

A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did: LotsRead More »Title Pirates

Mass deportations. What would actually happen—economically—if the President-elect follows through on promises to deport millions of people from America. We don’t have to guess. TodayRead More »The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)

Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a ritual dating back centuries.Read More »The great German land lottery

This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It’s a breakthrough calledRead More »The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made

Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of high-poverty neighborhoods into low-poverty ones. They wantedRead More »Moving to the American dream? (update)