Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us to talk about the collapse of oil futures, what happened to demand, and how problems in the energy sector affect the larger economy.
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How Can A Worker Be Both Essential And Low Paid?
Bama Athreya joins us to talk about laborers who don’t have the luxury of working from home – and about how the pandemic has severely affected the gig economy.
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Art Makes Money, While Artists Don’t
Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about how we value art.
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Who’s Still Listening To America?
Graham Allison joins us to talk about how this tricky balance of power is maintained – and about what happens when one superpower steps into another’s turf.
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It’s Not Too Late To Stave Off A Depression
Matthrew Yglesias, co-founder of Vox Media and co-host of The Weeds podcast, joins us to argue we don’t have to head into a Great Depression if we act boldly now.
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Why There’s Not Enough Public Transit
Aaron W. Gordon, senior writer for Motherboard, joins us to talk about why public transportation is broken and how, especially now, it’s time to rethink how people get places.
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To Improve Healthcare, Cut Costs
Jay Shambaugh, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why health care prices are so high and how we can improve future outcomes.
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In A Time Of Oversharing, Money Is Still Off Limits
Joe Pinsker, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about one of the last American taboos: asking about what’s in someone’s bank account.
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Life On The Front Lines Of Covid-19
Dr. Robert J. Hancock, president-elect of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, joins us to talk about how hospitals are planning ahead.
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Coronavirus is Attacking the Economy
David Wilcox, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, joins us for a conversation about the alarming dive to a bear market and how the nation might weather this growing storm.
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The Wild West Of Deep-Sea Mining
Journalist Wil S. Hylton joins us to talk about the dangerous and unregulated push to pull resources from the depths of the Earth.
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Paul Krugman Explains the Economy
New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joins us to talk about disproven ideas that have been resurrected by politics and fear – and about how to argue for common sense.
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