It’s … Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.
On today’s episode: a HUGE trade deal between India and the European Union, all the hot hockey romance New Yorkers could ever want, and a heavy earnings purse for Olympic competitors, win or lose.
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Why the Olympics cost so much
The surprising economics of digital lending
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Articles of Interest - Push-Up Contest
Zoe's dad made a bra that changed the world. Will it change her?
A feature from my friends over at the audio magazine Signal Hill
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Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.
Audio Mises Wire - Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist
By hiring a communist as his main housing adviser, New York Mayor Zohram Mamdani is fully committed to driving out private ownership of rental properties and handing over apartments to the city and politically-connected organizations. It will only make housing problems worse.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/surprise-mamdani-governing-socialist
Audio Mises Wire - Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-nationalists at least had a fighting chance.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-federalists-hated-bill-rights
The Indicator from Planet Money - Hawaii’s worker shortage goes NUTS
Macadamia nuts. Labor shortages. Volcanoes. All that might sound like econ Mad Libs, but they’re all connected to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s entry into the Beige Book this month: labor shortages are hurting macadamia nut harvests in Hawaii.
On today’s show, we take a vacation and talk to someone on the Big Island who runs a macadamia nut farm. He calls them “mac nuts.”
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Why beef prices are so high
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2554: Slogans and Jingles
Episode: 2554 The Creativity of Slogans and Jingles. Today, "think different."
Articles of Interest - Clerical Collar
Pastor Zach never liked to wear a clerical collar. Suddenly, he finds himself wearing one all the time.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesAudio Mises Wire - We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can’t Have Both.
While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of those who build state power at the expense of freedom.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-can-have-unity-or-we-can-have-freedom-we-cant-have-both
More or Less - Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
Is it true that someone needs to earn £71,000 before they receive more money than a family on benefits?
Did Canadian prime minister Mark Carney get the GDP of Canada and the Nordic countries wrong?
Are 1990s pop icons Right Said Fred right about what they said about church attacks?
Is a sauna really ten times as hot as Wales in the winter?
And Tim hits the science lab treadmill to find out if he can run a four-hour marathon.
If you’ve seen a number in the news you want the team on More or Less to have a look at, email moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Contributors: Gareth Morgan, benefits expert and author of the Benefits in the Future blog Joe Shalam, policy director of the Centre for Social Justice Professor Kelly Morrison, head of physics at Loughborough University Dr Danny Muniz, a senior lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of Hertfordshire
Credits: Presenter: Tim Harford Reporters: Nathan Gower, Lizzy McNeill and Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Gareth Jones and James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon