Episodes (Page 14)
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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
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Federal law requires nearly all taxes on rum sold in the U.S. to be sent to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, generating over $700 million annually
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The Gulf of Mexico's first-ever offshore wind auction in summer showed mixed results, with two of three patches receiving no bids despite high expectations
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The Oscars is essentially an election year for Hollywood where studios and streamers deploy tens of millions of dollars in coordinated campaign strategies to sway voters
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Dynamic pricing is common in industries like ride-sharing and airlines but nearly absent in American supermarkets, raising questions about why
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The U.S. offers no federal paid parental leave, limited public childcare, and penalizes women's wages after parenthood, making it expensive to have children compared to other nations
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Schools fundraise through students selling wrapping paper and chocolate, turning kids into salespeople to fund field trips and school activities