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Extremist groups of the 1950s played a violent part, alongside real estate and neighborhood organizations, in keeping Chicago segregated.
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Today on the show, we meet Canada's new Prime Minister, economist Mark Carney.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Aren’t Reciprocal and Other Reasons They Don’t Make Sense
There are several errors, misconceptions, and confusing assumptions that went into the creation of Donald Trump's new wealth-destroying tariff regime. Scott Lincicome explains a few of them.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - What’s so bad about a trade deficit?
President Trump claims a main goal of his crippling tariffs is to address the U.S. trade deficit. So is the U.S. trade deficit a problem? On today's show, why we'll never have a trade surplus with every single country; what the benefits of a trade deficit are; and whether or not the trade deficit affects jobs.
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The Federal Reserve can blunt the impact of a good deal of politically driven economic mischief. What about the new punitive tariff regime from the President? Jai Kedia suggests that you not get your hopes up.
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Trump's wave of tariffs is here. Just about everyone in the world of business is still processing exactly what this means. It's a massive, widespread increase in taxes. Today on the show, we hear from business people we've had on the show who tell us what they're doing in response to the latest, and largest, wave of tariffs.
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Episode: 1349 Short-lived, but dramatic technologies. Today, technologies that last only a little while.
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