Series – Page 10

January 16, 2026

Articles of Interest - Made in USA

This is one of the best pieces of fashion reporting I have ever heard: it's a reworked version of a story that originally aired on the NPR podcast Planet Money.

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January 16, 2026

Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1508: Alchemy

Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.

January 15, 2026

Audio Mises Wire - Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone

People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressives. And nothing will change.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bait-and-switch-victims-la-wildfires-find-local-government-wants-them-gone

January 15, 2026

Curious City - ‘Weather is cool’: Weird Chicago weather, from northern lights to water spouts

Thanks to the powerful force that is Lake Michigan and the urban heat island that is Chicago, the city has witnessed some unusual and extreme weather events. Last episode was about lake-effect snow and a phrase you hear all the time: “Cooler by the lake.” But Chicago weather definitely gets stranger than that. We’re talking thundersnow, water spouts and even space weather. Why do these weather events happen, what makes them unusual and how can you have a little fun (safely!) when they come around? We talk with Jeff Frame, a teaching professor in the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

January 15, 2026

The Indicator from Planet Money - Why Trump resurrected the Monroe Doctrine

203 years ago, President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to powerful countries in Europe. Fast forward, and President Trump is reviving the Monroe Doctrine to justify intervening in places like Venezuela, and threatening further action in other parts of Latin America and Greenland. On today’s show, how is Trump redefining the Monroe Doctrine and what does it mean for the world?

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January 15, 2026

Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2550: Napoleon’s Theorem

Episode: 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon's Theorem? Today, did he, or didn't he?

January 15, 2026

Audio Mises Wire - Trump Wants $500 Billion More for the Pentagon As Deficits Mount

Trump ways he wants to spend half a trillion more dollars on military spending, even as federal spending persists at Biden-Era levels and interest on the debt climbs ever upward.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-wants-500-billion-more-pentagon-deficits-mount

January 14, 2026

Audio Mises Wire - Trump’s Justice Dept. Launches Criminal Probe against the Fed’s Powell

This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed’s many powers to inflate, exploit, and help fund an ever expanding federal government.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-justice-dept-launches-criminal-probe-against-feds-powell

January 14, 2026

Audio Mises Wire - Powell Should Be A Great American Villain. DC Will Make Him a Hero

The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the Fed has always done the administration’s dirty work and pursued inflation when it might temporarily boost the economy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/powell-should-be-great-american-villain-dc-will-make-him-hero

January 14, 2026

Curious City - When is it no longer ‘cooler by the lake’?

You’ve heard it in the Chicago weather forecast time and time again: “cooler by the lake.” But how close to Lake Michigan do you need to be to feel that dip in the temperature? And why doesn’t Chicago get the same lake effect snow as Northwest Indiana? We look into the powerful force that is Lake Michigan.