Computers vs. the News: What's Behind the Stock Market Chop?
…and access to markets that is really driving it. Narang writes: From 2000-2006, the S&P 500 moved an average of 0.37% per day when the market was closed (that is,…
…and access to markets that is really driving it. Narang writes: From 2000-2006, the S&P 500 moved an average of 0.37% per day when the market was closed (that is,…
The economist Joseph Stiglitz has devoted his life to exposing the limits of markets. He tells Steve about winning an argument with fellow Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, why small governments…
Economists have discovered an odd phenomenon: many people who use social media (even you, maybe?) wish it didn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean they can escape….
When he became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai announced that he was going to take a “weed whacker” to Obama-era regulations. So far, he’s kept his promise,…
Humans, it has long been thought, are the only animal to engage in economic activity. But what if we’ve had it exactly backward?…
How did an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of cutthroat capitalism? Does “the invisible hand” mean what everyone thinks it does? We travel to Smith’s hometown in…
Humans, it has long been thought, are the only animal to engage in economic activity. But what if we’ve had it exactly backward?
He argues that personal finance is so simple all you need to know can fit on an index card. How will he deal with Steve’s suggestion that Harold’s nine rules…
…a commitment to markets, on the one hand, and doing good, on the other. We found that our friends who were market advocates tended to ridicule our commitment to doing…
Trump says it would destroy us. Biden needs the voters who support it (especially the Bernie voters). The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is…
G.M. produces more than 20 times as many cars as Tesla, but Tesla is worth nearly 10 times as much. Mary Barra, the C.E.O. of G.M., is trying to fix…
John Green returns to the show to talk about tuberculosis — a disease that kills more than a million people a year. Steve has an idea for a new way…
America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)…
Dubner and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt answer your questions about crime, traffic, real-estate agents, the Ph.D. glut, and how to not get eaten by a bear.
Smart government policies, good industrial relations, and high-end products have helped German manufacturing beat back the threats of globalization.
America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)…
Trump says it would destroy us. Sanders says it will save us. The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is “it”? We bring in the…
In three stories from our newest podcast, host Zachary Crockett digs into sports mascots, cashmere sweaters, and dinosaur skeletons….
David Keith has spent his career studying ways to reflect sunlight away from the earth. It could reduce the risks of climate change — but it won’t save us.
You’ve seen them — everywhere! — and often clustered together, as if central planners across America decided that what every city really needs is a Mattress District. There are now…
…market in a number of cities for years. Finally, a story of a very niche hitchhiking market comes from reader Chris Gorman, whose email is posted below, along with a…
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, EatWith, and other companies in the “sharing economy” are practically daring government regulators to shut them down. The regulators are happy to comply.
He was handed the keys to the global economy just as it started heading off a cliff. Fortunately, he’d seen this movie before.
The mathematician and author sees mathematical patterns everywhere — from DNA to fireflies to social connections….
…not fair. However, I’m not sure it’s so black and white. Here are the benefits of making insider trading legal: The more information in a market, any market, the more…
Google and Facebook are worth a combined $2 trillion, with the vast majority of their revenue coming from advertising. In our previous episode, we learned that TV advertising is much…
…not the other way around? The answer turns on the particularities of the drug market and the regulatory system drug makers operate in. Generic drugs are those that are copies…
The “beauty premium” is real, for everyone from babies to NFL quarterbacks.
…NCAA adopting a free-market approach to college sports, currently works and benefits from a free labor market. And if these people were told that their wages were capped by a…
For lots of things, price is an indicator of quality. But what about in health care? Bapu Jena gets some clues from Steve Levitt’s wine tasting experiment, and looks at…
