All Episodes
PolyMatter — 91 episodes
What Makes Black Mirror So Good?
How China Won the Electric Vehicle Race
The Truth About China's Social Credit System
How Lies Become True On the Internet - Circular Sourcing
Why Singapore Elects the Losers of its Elections
America’s Self-Inflicted Doctor Shortage
The Grand Theory of Apple
How Not to Make Mobile Games
The Most Overvalued Startup in the World?
How Container Ships Work
The Downvote Predicament
Why Puerto Rico’s Economy Doesn’t Work
Apple Glasses Are Coming - Here's Why
China’s Fundamental Economic Problem
Kim Jong-Un: A Brilliant Leader
Why it’s Illegal to Buy a Car from Toyota
Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000
Why There Are No Flights Between India and China
China is Not a Socialist Utopia.
Why YouTube Comments Suck (and Reddit comments don't)
Subscription Affliction - Everything is $10/month
Why China isn’t Scared of Robots
Canada’s Secret Weapon: America’s Broken Immigration System
Walmart’s New Plan to Defeat Amazon
Is Amazon Too Big?
How Unused Gift Cards Power Delaware’s Economy
Can Switzerland Stay Neutral?
Why are flags so similar?
How America Became the World’s #1 Oil Producer
Why China is About to Start a Trade War
Why China Banned Homework
How Somalia’s Pirates Make Money
The Entry-Level Job Crisis
Are We in a Cold War with China?
Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil
How to Make a Blockbuster Movie
What Xi Jinping Fears More than America
Kim Jong-Un’s New Strategy
Why Bing Isn't a Failure (and the Future of the Internet)
The Return of Nuclear Weapons
How to Save the Online Economy
Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
Apple is (kind of) a Game Company
The Surprising Way Credit Cards Make Money
Kim Jong-Un's New Strategy: Explained
Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash Anymore
Would America Really Defend Taiwan?
The Grand Theory of Amazon
Why America’s Most Conservative State is Building its Largest Wind Farm
The College Enrollment Crisis
Not Everyone Should Code
Self-Driving Cars Won’t Save Cities - Here’s What Will
Why Russia and Kazakhstan Pretend to be Allies
Why Nepal Just Overthrew its Government
How Cruise Ships Work
Why the United States is Suing Apple
How China Killed Hong Kong's Economy
The European Country Putin Stubbornly Refuses to Invade
Russia is Running Out of People
Why Apple Can’t Leave China (yet)
Why China Ended its One-Child Policy
The Death of Malls?
Apple's Money Problem (and Why It Won't Buy Netflix)
Why the Average Japanese Farmer is 70 Years Old
The Challenge of Creative Work
Why 75% of Indian Women are Unemployed
Why China Banned Weird Architecture
Rent is Free in South Korea. What’s the Catch?
The College Board Monopoly on Education
The Strange, Broken Economics of Ireland
How To Do Politics
How to Fix the Patent System
How China Accidentally Created a Billion Dollar Scam Industry
Nudging: The Future of Advertising
The Reddit Filter
Are America’s Students Falling Behind?
When Will China Invade Taiwan?
Why Spotify’s “Grand Strategy” Will Fail
Why Scooter Startups Are Worth Billions
The Biology of Business
Why Israel is a Tech Capital of the World
The True Cost of the iPhone
America’s Birth Rate “Crisis”
How College Broke the Labor Market
Why “Learn to Code” Failed
China's War on Pollution
Taiwan is Not Venezuela
Why Ethiopia is Creating a New Country Next Door
How America’s 4,488 Banks Work
The Economics of Uber
The App Store Race to the Bottom