Summer School 6: When the markets need a desi...

Did a pizza restaurant’s humble status page change how we wait forever? When you order a Lyft or Uber, you get texts every few minutes about your car approaching and arriving. When you have a package coming, you get a notification when it’s shipped, when it’s en route, and when i ...  Show more

Margin borrowing and sports gambling “investments” are both on the rise! Today on the show, two stories from Planet Money’s daily podcast The Indicator about the ways investing is changing, and getting riskier.According to one study, more than half of Gen Zers are using investmen ...  Show more

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide what they want to buy, and private enterprise responds to that need. So what makes government think that it's smarter than capita ...  Show more

Even in free markets, governments still make plays. Chris Hughes is a co-founder of Facebook and an economist who specializes in the history of Fed policy. He is also the author of “MarketCrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy.” Hughes joined Ricky Mulvey t ...  Show more

On today’s show we are taking a look at market inefficiency and why it occurs. 

When I say inefficiency, we see markets oscillating between being vastly under supplied to over supplied and back. 

The signs of inefficiency are everywhere if you choose to look. But ...

A market can be a specific, physical location to buy things, but it can also be a more abstract economic system. Listen to Georgie talk about some verbs that you are likely to hear with the word 'market'.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to he ...  Show more