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  • Let's 'TACO' 'bout General Motors gassing up V-8s and golden shares

    Let's 'TACO' 'bout General Motors gassing up V-8s and golden shares
    May 30 2025
    It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating numbers from the news.

    On today's episode, we examine: General Motors invests big in V-8s; U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel flirt with the Golden Share; Trump's tariffs just got more unpredictable.

    Related episodes:
    Dealmaker Don v. Tariff Man Trump (Apple / Spotify)
    The tensions behind the sale of U.S. Steel (Apple / Spotify)

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    9 minutos
  • Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?

    Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?
    May 29 2025
    Top Trump advisers have been boasting about 'awesome' trade deals the administration is negotiating with other countries. But are these deals real? Today on the show, we ask a former U.S. trade negotiator whether these agreements hold up.

    Related episodes:
    Dealmaker Don v. Tariff Man Trump (Apple / Spotify)
    Why there's no referee for the trade war (Apple / Spotify)
    Is this a bank?

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    9 minutos
  • Why are college coaches paid so much?

    Why are college coaches paid so much?
    May 28 2025
    If you had to guess, would you say the president of a university usually makes more money than the football coach? Well, you may be wrong. A college's football coach is often their highest paid employee. The University of Alabama pays its football coach on average close to $11 million. Today on the show, why are college football coaches paid so much? Do their salaries really make economic sense?

    Related episodes:
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    Want to get ahead in youth sports? Try staying back a year (Apple / Spotify)

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    9 minutos
  • How to build abundantly

    How to build abundantly
    May 27 2025
    Why is building affordable housing so hard these days? We talk to author Derek Thompson about his new book with Ezra Klein, Abundance, about what they believe is keeping affordable housing out of reach in high-income cities.

    Related:
    How big is the US housing shortage? (Apple / Spotify)
    How California's speed rail was always going to blow out (Apple / Spotify)
    Why building public transit costs so much

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  • The dawn of search engines

    The dawn of search engines
    May 26 2025
    Today on the show, we bring you a special episode from the Understood feed at CBC podcasts. It's an excerpt from a series called Who Broke the Internet hosted by Cory Doctorow. The four part series details his criticisms on the state of the modern internet and what we can do about it.

    From his conversations with Eric Corly the publisher of 2600, an iconic hacker magazine, best known under his hacker name Emmanuel Goldstein, to Clive Thompson a tech and culture writer to Steven Levy the author of "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives" this excerpt digs into how search engines started.

    You can listen to more of the podcast here.

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    10 minutos
  • Target, Klarna and Sesame Street's new addy

    Target, Klarna and Sesame Street's new addy
    May 23 2025
    Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Indicators of the Week? This week's econ roundup looks at Target's sagging sales, Klarna's pay-later problem, and Sesame Street's new streaming address.

    Related:
    When do boycotts work? (Apple / Spotify)
    Buy now, pay dearly?

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    9 minutos
  • How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin

    How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin
    May 22 2025
    Just before Trump began his second administration in January, he and his business partners launched the $TRUMP coin. It's a meme coin that quickly raked in hundreds of millions of dollars. And there's a lot of earning potential still left on the table. Is any of this legal?

    Today on the show, we examine how the $TRUMP coin works and talk to an expert about how the president's meme coin gambit interacts with the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

    Related episodes:
    How the memecoin game is played
    Did Trump enable insider trading?

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    9 minutos
  • The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.

    The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.
    May 21 2025
    President Donald Trump wants more products made in America, and he's not afraid of a few trade wars to make it happen. Back in the 80s, a different trade dispute brought new manufacturing to the U.S. Today on the show, how former President Ronald Reagan used the threat of trade protectionism to bring car-making stateside, and why the same strategy might not work today.

    Related episodes:
    The tensions behind the sale of U.S. Steel (Apple / Spotify)
    Tariffs: What are they good for? (Apple / Spotify)

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