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  • Trump's parade, FEMA phase out, and Warner Bros. Discovery divorces ... itself?

    Trump's parade, FEMA phase out, and Warner Bros. Discovery divorces ... itself?
    Jun 13 2025
    It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.

    On today's episode: the monetary cost of Trump's military parade, looks like FEMA could be phased out, and another change to Warner Bros. Discovery.

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    Coyote vs. Warner Bros. Discovery (Apple / Spotify)
    Gilded Age 2.0? (Apple / Spotify)

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  • The hidden costs of healthcare churn

    The hidden costs of healthcare churn
    Jun 12 2025
    Healthcare churn—when people switch insurance plans—is particularly bad in the US.

    In today's episode, why Americans switch healthcare plans so much, and how that can cost a lot in money ... and in health.

    Related episode:
    How doctors helped tank universal health care (Apple / Spotify)
    Healthcare And Economic Despair

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  • The secret tariff-free zone

    The secret tariff-free zone
    Jun 11 2025
    There's something interesting happening at the Port of Baltimore. On today's show, we explore the hidden world of bonded warehouses, where you can stash your imported Latvian vodka or Dutch beer free from tariffs (for a while).

    Related episodes:
    Tariffied! We check in on businesses (Apple / Spotify)

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  • What's a revenge tax?

    What's a revenge tax?
    Jun 10 2025
    For four decades, the US has maintained a consistent policy position: money should be fairly free to come and go in and out of the country. That's changing.

    Two sections in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would add friction. First is a 3.5% tax on immigrants sending money home, commonly known as remittances. Second is what's known as Section 899 or, colloquially, the 'revenge tax'. This one is making Wall Street wary. It would slap extra taxes on people and businesses investing in the U.S. if their home countries were deemed to tax Americans unfairly.

    We explain these two taxes that could mark a shift in our free-flowing money era.

    Related episodes:
    The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (Apple / Spotify)
    The "chilling effect" of deportations (Apple / Spotify)

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  • How doctors helped tank universal health care

    How doctors helped tank universal health care
    Jun 9 2025
    A debate has been raging over universal health care in the U.S. since the 1940s. Back then, a formidable opponent emerged to dump a lot of money into ensuring it wouldn't happen. That opponent was doctors. Today on the show, Sally Helm, a Planet Money reporter, comes to us in her capacity as the host of HISTORY This Week to detail how doctors helped tank single pay healthcare back then and the role communism played in the fight.

    A longer version of this episode is available at HISTORY This Week from the History Channel.

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    Socialism 101

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  • Why U.S. workers keep getting more productive

    Why U.S. workers keep getting more productive
    Jun 6 2025
    For the last couple of years, U.S. labor productivity has been on the rise. And economists don't know exactly why. So today on the show, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago plays economic detective and helps us investigate some different theories about why U.S. workers seem to be more productive than in prior decades.

    Related episodes:
    What keeps a Fed president up at night (Apple / Spotify)
    Productivity and workforce whiplash (Apple / Spotify)

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  • Gilded Age 2.0?

    Gilded Age 2.0?
    Jun 5 2025
    To hear President Trump tell it, the late 1800s, i.e. the Gilded Age, were a period of unparalleled wealth and prosperity in the U.S. But this era was also marked by corruption and wealth inequality. Sound familiar? On today's show, is history repeating itself?

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    Trump's tariff role model (Apple / Spotify)
    Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (Apple / Spotify)

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  • An indicator lost: big disaster costs

    An indicator lost: big disaster costs
    Jun 4 2025
    The U.S. government has tallied the economic impact of major natural disasters going back to 1980. State and local governments used this data for budgeting and planning. But last month, the administration retired its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters disaster database. Today on the show, we speak to Adam Smith, the architect of the program, on the work he did and what might be next.

    Related episodes:
    How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update) (Apple / Spotify)
    How ski resorts are (economically) adjusting to climate change (Apple / Spotify)

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