Ricardo Hausmann on What it Takes to Win a Trade War
The focus of Trump's trade policies is clearly China. There are tariffs on everyone, of course, but it's the growing Chinese manufacturing might, and the various perceived risks associated with that, ...
12 Juni 202544min
Vladislav Zubok on What the Cold War Actually Was
These days, it's common to talk about the emergence of a New Cold War that exists between the US and China. It's debatable whether or not this is a useful framing. But in order to answer the question,...
9 Juni 202555min
Introducing: Everybody's Business
Bloomberg Businessweek brings you a smart and fun chat show about all things...business. Hosted by award-winning business and economics journalists Max Chafkin (author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel a...
8 Juni 20251min
A Major American Egg Farm Just Lost 90% of its Chickens
Egg prices have come down a lot since their recent record and bird flu has largely faded from the headlines. But the epidemic is still raging and, per one farmer, risks becoming endemic in the US. Gle...
7 Juni 202521min
Lots More on What America's Busiest Port is Seeing from the Trade Tariffs
We're about two months on from Liberation Day, and there's still a lot of confusion about what's going on with global trade. Some countries, like China, have been granted delays from tariffs. But othe...
6 Juni 202516min
Jersey City's Mayor on How the City Built So Much Housing
To some extent, at least in big cities, it feels as though the cost of housing is enveloping almost everything else in terms of politics right now. Booming areas that drive GDP have gotten incredibly ...
5 Juni 202539min
Why It's So Hard for Apple to Move Production from China to India
President Trump wants Apple to make iPhones in America. The company itself has talked about — and to some extent already has been — moving more of its production to other countries, like India. But in...
2 Juni 202546min
How Do We Define a Currency?
What is a currency? This turns out to be one of those questions we just kind of skip over because we don't have clear answers to it (and because economists often like to skip over these foundational t...
31 Maj 202557min
