Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange of goods and ...

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises ...

In economics, a market is a place (even virtual) where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods or services. Economists love markets. It’s like all of ...

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide what ...

Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions – in government, in media, in medical science… and lately, economists are ...

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. There are occasional incentives in business that make it very profitable to do bad things; maybe cheat at ...

LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied American steel company ...

LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied American steel company ...

Although it seems like the government can spend an endless amount of money, it cannot actually do all the things it wants to do. So the big question in this ...

It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on… manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been working to try and ...

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What people might picture when they think of “Made in America” … might not look like the “Made in America” we have today. The ...

We all know the government uses taxes to pay for things. But what about using taxes to control behavior? This week on Summer School, Professor Darrick Hamilton ...

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon ...

If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it up in one line. It ...

There’s an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the national ...

In 2019, President Trump tweeted: “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies.” Today, the Trumps are all over crypto. There are ...

Econ Battle Zone is back! On today’s episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium to throw down against reigning champion Erika Beras. ...

The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But now, President Trump ...

Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023. Every year, the U.S. government spends more money than it takes in. In order to fund all that spending, the ...