Notable Guests
CP
Consumer Spending Puzzle
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DR
Decoder Ring
1x
LK
Life Kit
1x
MM
Mike The Mover
1x
SA
Summer School Antarctica
1x
TS
The Consumer Sentiment
1x
TP
The Furniture Police
1x
Recent Episodes
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Biologists discuss gene-splicing's pause button from 50 years ago.
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Companies receive billions in tariff refunds after illegal tariffs were ruled invalid.
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Charles Ponzi's early struggles and search for wealth.
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Exploring the explosion of new drinks in stores, from seltzers to functional sodas.
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Social Security faces a funding shortfall by 2032, potentially impacting retiree payments.
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Discover the "middlegarchs," a hidden wealthy class beyond Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
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The national debt has reached $40 trillion, prompting questions about its sustainability.
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Domino's Pizza Tracker revolutionized customer experience in 2008.
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Margin borrowing and sports gambling are increasing, signaling riskier investment trends.
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New mortgage loans are rapidly gaining popularity nationwide.
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Economy is a paradox: boom and doom simultaneously, not captured by stats.
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Trump announced a deal for U.S. control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves.
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Palantir's mystery: what data they have and what they do with it.
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Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" is a catchy anthem with surprisingly dark lyrics about workplace struggles.
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Produce is increasingly branded like consumer goods, with names like Honeycrisp apples and Sugar Bomb tomatoes.
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Explores Antarctica's unique status as a continent owned by no nation.
Summer School Antarctica
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Planet Money pitches their game 'Sell Me a Sasquatch' to big box retailers.
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Exploring South Korea's economic transformation since WWII.
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Wall Street firms profit from life insurance policies through a secondary market.
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Argentina's economic experts navigate inflation and flexibility.