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Iran didn’t suddenly become the geopolitical flashpoint it is today, the roots go back decades. In this first part of a two-part series, we trace the economic and political history that reshaped Iran from the 1940s to the 1979 revolution. From Britain’s oil empire and the CIA-bac ...  Show more

In this episode, we ask what happens when economic evolution moves from human speed to machine speed. Fresh from an off-the-record discussion with a Nobel Prize–winning AI pioneer Demis Hassibis, we unpack how AI is reshaping medicine, productivity, profits, and power, and why ma ...  Show more

The single issue that might decide the upcoming presidential election also happens to be: very confusing. Political economist Mark Blyth helps us understand: how inflation starts, how inflation is stopped, and shares his theory about why the powers-that-be may be just as confused ...  Show more

Adam Ozimek, Chief Economist at Innovate Economy, explains why he's hopeful inflation has crested, why it's stuck around longer than economists expected, and why he believes we'll see inflation come down in the coming months and back down to normal over the next year.

Is food inflation truly skewing the effectiveness of monetary policy? The government certainly seems to think so. A combination of volatile food prices, supply side inflation surge, and tame core inflation has led the government to think food inflation had best be excluded from t ...  Show more

Inflation is everywhere—in the headlines, in central bank decisions, and in the market moves that follow. In this episode, we break down what inflation really is, how it’s measured, and why it matters so much to central banks, investors, and asset prices. From CPI and PCE to core ...  Show more