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The secret meeting that launched OPEC
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 cos...
Diary of a WNBA negotiator
Today the WNBA season tips off, but Dallas Wings veteran forward Alysha Clark has already won a high-stakes competition. She – and a Nobel P...
How we got free agents in baseball
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...
How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
In the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times Best Seller List....
Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
It’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to muse about “buying” them. M...
Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
At one point in history, one U.S. company monopolized the rare earths industry. Then China took over the industry. Can the U.S. bring it bac...
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
We talk with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Chief Economist at Redfin Daryl Fairweather about two of the biggest issues of our time: AI...
Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of copium after they fat-finge...
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
The United States has been at war with Iran since February 28th. And for a month and a half, Iran’s main leverage over the U.S. has been the...
BOOKstore Economics
How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a b...
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Live event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You might...
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort o...
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on f...
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when al...
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
When you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than the physical fo...
Inside a BOOK auction
In the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever...
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly see...
Chef vs. Robot
Robby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But he’s...
The laws of the office revisited
Live event info and tickets here. If something is going wrong in your workplace, there's probably a law that explains why. Meetings always s...
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