Episodes (Page 13)
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Profiles Jon Rolston, a San Francisco junkman who has spent two decades understanding which discarded items have resale value or second-life potential
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Follows the story of a man ('V') who was unexpectedly laid off from his company despite strong job performance and current standing
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Describes a near-catastrophic cyberattack targeting the XZ open-source software that powers critical internet infrastructure for banks, airlines, and military systems
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Examines why gold has maintained its economic and cultural value despite not having inherent utility like most commodities
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Reveals the practice of debt collectors buying zombie second mortgages
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Explores why video game workers accept lower wages despite working in a booming industry, examining labor market dynamics in gaming
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Ralph Nader's 1960s consumer safety crusade launched the modern consumer movement in the U.S.
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Millions of American workers are bound by noncompete agreements that prevent them from changing jobs within their fields, exemplified by efforts in Hawaii to ban these contracts
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A 30-year-old theft of two sacred Bhairav masks from a Hindu temple in Nepal, stolen from a family that owned them for over 500 years, sets the stage for a recovery story
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Union membership in the U.S. has declined for decades despite high public support, with the unionization process itself being a major barrier to organizing
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FTX bankruptcy has created a financial feeding frenzy among vulture investors and creditors competing over the company's remains, separate from Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal case
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Consumer sentiment doesn't match economic data
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TikTok is filled with financial advice of varying reliability, including many questionable tax tips that often suggest fraudulently categorizing personal expenses as business expenses
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Francis Galton discovered that the average guess of a crowd for an ox's weight was nearly perfectly accurate, off by only one pound out of hundreds of guesses
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Japan's economic miracle of the 1980s
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A Kansas City couple selling their home for $250,000 paid $15,000 in commission (6%) split between two agents despite hiring only one, raising antitrust concerns
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Congress and taxpayers disagree about U.S. financial support for wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with concerns about funding both military aid and civilian casualties
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Restaurant design expert Stephani Robson helps Adda, a casual Indian restaurant in Long Island City, rethink table layout and customer behavior to increase revenue
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Temu, launched in fall 2022, has become one of the most downloaded iPhone apps with 50 million monthly active users through aggressive advertising on Facebook and Snapchat
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U.S. steel manufacturing was once the nation's most important industry and major employer, but declined in the second half of the 20th century as foreign competitors gained power