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43 mins; March 20, 2026

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33 mins; March 18, 2026

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29 mins; March 11, 2026

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The ICE hiring boom

18 mins; February 25, 2026

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25 mins; February 21, 2026

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33 mins; February 06, 2026

Riding with the repo man (update)

29 mins; February 04, 2026

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27 mins; January 30, 2026

Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?

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A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch

31 mins; January 23, 2026

BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

36 mins; January 21, 2026

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33 mins; January 16, 2026

How much money President Trump and his family have made

30 mins; January 14, 2026

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24 mins; January 09, 2026

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Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)

22 mins; January 04, 2026

Indicators of the Year, Past and Future

18 mins; December 31, 2025

Why economists got free trade with China so wrong

25 mins; December 29, 2025

The Rest of the Story, 2025

28 mins; December 26, 2025

The summer I turned binge-y

30 mins; December 24, 2025

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32 mins; December 19, 2025

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54 mins; December 17, 2025

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30 mins; December 12, 2025

Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

36 mins; December 10, 2025

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30 mins; December 05, 2025

Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)

18 mins; December 03, 2025

Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)

24 mins; November 28, 2025

Saving lives with fewer dollars

32 mins; November 26, 2025

The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle

19 mins; November 21, 2025

Days of our Tariffs

30 mins; November 19, 2025

The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina

29 mins; November 14, 2025

Buy now, pay dearly? (update)

25 mins; November 12, 2025

A new experiment in remote work … from the inside

28 mins; November 07, 2025

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17 mins; November 05, 2025

After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble

29 mins; October 31, 2025

The remittance mystery

28 mins; October 29, 2025

Should the fine have to fit the crime?

25 mins; October 24, 2025

TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy

25 mins; October 22, 2025

How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions

31 mins; October 17, 2025

The year NYC went broke

31 mins; October 15, 2025

How the government got hedge funded

28 mins; October 10, 2025

Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators)

19 mins; October 08, 2025

BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype

35 mins; October 03, 2025

BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game

32 mins; October 01, 2025

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23 mins; September 26, 2025

How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled

28 mins; September 24, 2025

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35 mins; September 19, 2025

When CEO pay exploded (update)

22 mins; September 17, 2025

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25 mins; September 12, 2025

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28 mins; September 10, 2025

What happens to central banks under pressure?

25 mins; September 05, 2025

The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com

20 mins; September 03, 2025

Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed

22 mins; August 29, 2025

Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE!

30 mins; August 27, 2025

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32 mins; August 22, 2025

Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages

39 mins; August 20, 2025

When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI

31 mins; August 15, 2025

What happens when governments cook the books

34 mins; August 08, 2025

Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer

42 mins; August 06, 2025

Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry

36 mins; August 06, 2025

Would you trust an economist with your economy?

32 mins; August 01, 2025

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35 mins; July 30, 2025

The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel

28 mins; July 25, 2025

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36 mins; July 23, 2025

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22 mins; July 18, 2025

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2 mins; July 18, 2025

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37 mins; July 16, 2025

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30 mins; July 11, 2025

Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer

35 mins; July 09, 2025

The simple math of the big bill

32 mins; July 04, 2025

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25 mins; July 02, 2025

When Trump met crypto

31 mins; June 27, 2025

Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown

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28 mins; June 20, 2025

Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update)

30 mins; June 18, 2025

Why I joined DOGE

27 mins; June 13, 2025

Are Trump's tariffs legal?

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When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA

31 mins; June 06, 2025

Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators)

18 mins; June 04, 2025

The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory

28 mins; May 30, 2025

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27 mins; May 28, 2025

The secret world behind those scammy text messages

34 mins; May 23, 2025

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23 mins; May 21, 2025

The 145% tariff already did its damage

26 mins; May 16, 2025

What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war

25 mins; May 14, 2025

Is the reign of the dollar over?

26 mins; May 09, 2025

What "Made in China" actually means

27 mins; May 07, 2025

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24 mins; May 02, 2025

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25 mins; April 30, 2025

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