Come along as we travel the world in search of the best economic ideas to bring home! From the beaches of Barbuda to the fjords of Norway, there’s money ...

Lionel Messi is arguably the greatest soccer scorer of all time. But when it comes to penalty kicks, Messi is merely average. Why? Maybe the answer involves ...

Will limiting how much students can borrow force schools to lower their prices?  The Department of Education thinks so. It has a new plan to bring down tuition ...

In the early 90’s, a company called General Magic began working on a portable device that would allow people to check email, make phone calls, even play games. ...

Prediction markets aren’t new. Election betting was common until the 1940s, then mysteriously faded away. There was an entire political era when party bosses ...

Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: ...

The cyber weapon that might have prevented nuclear war. The U.S. and Israel have long been in conflict with Iran over their nuclear development program. Some ...

Can the government stop you from cutting down your own tree? In many towns and cities these days, removing a tree now requires a permit. You might have to pay ...

One specific type of affordable housing used to be popular in American cities, kept rents low, then nearly vanished. Is it time to reconsider boarding houses ...

One reason the $70 billion supplement industry is set to double in the next seven years? Lax regulation. On today’s show, we tell the story of a ...

Have you ever walked around a street, mall, or airport and noticed two or three of the same franchise restaurant within walking distance? Why might one ...

99% of chemicals in our food right now were added without FDA approval. Many were added in secret, through a sneaky loophole built into the 1958 Food Additives ...

Tax avoidance — that is, legally reducing your tax bill — is as American as apple pie. But the line between tax avoidance and tax evasion is often ...

How does a poor country become a rich country? There’s a simple blueprint — or at least, that’s what many economists used to believe. But over the ...

Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice.  Every single worker in the European Union is ...

If you have a credit card, hope to buy a house, or just want stable grocery prices – let’s talk about the future of Fed independence! It’s impossibly important ...

Recently, a listener wrote in with a question about OPEC and oil prices. She was prepping for a camping trip… thinking about how much it costs to fill up her ...

Today the WNBA season tips off, but Dallas Wings veteran forward Alysha Clark has already won a high-stakes competition. She – and a Nobel Prize winning ...

Curt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game’s highest paid players. He took the St. Louis Cardinals to the World Series three times. ...

In the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times Best Seller List. But how does a ...