How Empty Land in the Arizona Desert Gets Turned Into Homes
Homebuilders have experienced major whiplash over the last few years. The pandemic originally caused them to slam the brakes on new development. Then the housing boom happened and they raced to catch ...
2 Mar 202341min
Why We Don't Build More Apartments for Families
The vast majority of urban apartments in the US are geared towards single occupants, couples without kids or maybe young professionals with roommates. It's hard to find apartments with the kind of lay...
27 Feb 202341min
Why Interest Rates on Savings Accounts Are Still So Low
The Federal Reserve has been raising benchmark borrowing rates at the fastest pace in decades, but the interest rate paid out to millions of people with bank accounts is still stuck at almost zero. Ac...
23 Feb 202337min
A Former CIA Official on One Year of Russia's War in Ukraine
It's been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine in an event that set off a chain reaction of both geopolitical and economic consequences. So what have we learned from the past twelve months? And what ...
20 Feb 202355min
Brian Deese on the Legislative Legacy of President Biden's First Two Years
President Biden came into office with an incredibly slim legislative majority. And yet despite just 50 Democratic seats in the Senate, the first two years of Biden's Presidency saw the passage of some...
17 Feb 202353min
This Is What Happens if the US Actually Hits the Debt Ceiling
The US is in the middle of another debt ceiling fight. The expectation is that it will get lifted before we hit the so called "drop dead" date — but what happens if Congress does not authorize more de...
16 Feb 202350min
What Happens Now to All the Laid Off Tech Workers?
The US labor market looks rock solid. The unemployment rate is at its lowest level in 50 years, while layoffs continue to trend downward. But there's one glaring exception and that's the tech industry...
13 Feb 202353min
Jan Toporowski Explains Why Capitalists Dislike Full Employment
In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, the work of John Maynard Keynes experienced a revival, as people sought answers to the problem of sluggish growth. In this cycle, sluggish growth isn't the p...
10 Feb 202337min
