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TikTok, and other apps like it, are filled with financial advice. Some of it is reliable, some... less so. There are videos about running a business, having a s…

What's going on with consumers? This is one of the trickiest puzzles of this weird economic moment we're in. We've covered a version of this before under the te…

For the last year and a half, the story of FTX has focused largely on the crimes and punishment of Sam Bankman-Fried. But in the background, the actual customer…

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2023 .) Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions among Americans was …

About thirty years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan woke up to the news that the temple he and his clan used had been broken into. The temple had been ransacked. And so…

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2021 .) Millions of American workers in all sorts of industries have signed some form of noncompete agreement. Their perva…

Today on the show, the story of the modern consumer movement in the U.S. and the person who inspired it: Ralph Nader. How Ralph Nader's battle in the 1960s set …

Why do video game workers offer labor at a discount? How can you design a video game for blind and sighted players? Does that design have lessons for other indu…

In the past few months, the price of gold has gone way up – even hitting a new high last month at just over $2,400 per troy ounce. Gold has long had a shiny qua…

By one estimate, 40 percent of American workers get laid off at least once in their careers. And when that happens, companies will often say, "It's not personal…