The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It started as aRead More »ZIP Codes!

Ever since free trade opened up between the US and Mexico in the 1990s, trillions of dollars of goods have been going back and forthRead More »The potato-shaped loophole in free trade

Well, well, well. The internet peanut gallery called it. Apple’s grand teaser did indeed turn out to be Theory #1: this weekend, from January 4-5,Read More »Apple TV+ Is Free This Weekend—Here Are the 3 Best Shows to Watch

If you believe the hype, translators will all soon be out of work. Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of the language learning app Duolingo,Read More »If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?

Our planet is in serious trouble. There are a million species of plants and animals in danger of extinction, and the biggest cause is companiesRead More »The habitat banker

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?