All episodes
Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)
There Will Be Flood
George Soros vs. the Bank of England
How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach?
Why you bought your couch
Title Pirates
The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)
The great German land lottery
The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made
What markets bet President Trump will do
Moving to the American dream? (update)
The veteran loan calamity
So your data was stolen in a data breach
Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?
Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators
The Subscription Trap
We asked 188 economists. And the survey says...
ESo imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's??
Can cap and trade work in the US?
What's up with all the ads for law firms?
How Venezuela imploded (update)
What's THAT got to do with economics?
Veep-onomics
How to save 10,000 fingers
Can money buy happiness?
99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses
Rate Expectations
Is AI overrated or underrated?
Summer camp capitalism
Bingo! (Presidential debate edition)
How to fix a housing shortage
Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more
The trade fraud detective
Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy
The hidden world behind your new "banking" app
Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich
Will the Olympics break breakdancing?
ESummer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters
What to do when you're in a class action
Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar
Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life
What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like
The color monopoly
Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms
Rooftop solar's dark side
Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World
How flying got so bad (or did it?)
The two companies driving the modern economy
Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?
The Carriage Tax (Update)
The Vapes of Wrath
Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?
What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.
Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight
How much national debt is too much?
The history of light (classic)
How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
So you've been scammed, now what?
The junkyard economist
Anatomy of a layoff
The hack that almost broke the internet
Why Gold? (Classic)
Zombie mortgages are coming back to life
Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)
The birth of the modern consumer movement
Hire Power (Update)
The case of the stolen masks
How unions are stopped before they start (Update)
FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy
Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)
TikTok made me deduct it
How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)
Japan's Lost Decades
The real estate industry on trial
How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine
The trouble with Table 101 (Update)
What is Temu?
How Big Steel in the U.S. fell
The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum
Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators)
On the Oscars campaign trail
Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you?
Shopping for parental benefits around the world
The secret world behind school fundraisers
A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics
Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry
How the Navy came to protect cargo ships
It's giving ... Valentines
A lawsuit for your broken heart
Morally questionable, economically efficient
Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed
The Chicken Tax (Classic)
Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune
EHear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas
Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation
Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators
The Maine Potato War of 1976
The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya
The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships