Big Take

For years, the true price of health care in the US has been the result of negotiations between providers, insurance companies and government agencies. But for the patients, companies and taxpayers who...

13 Feb 202413min

China’s economy has been in rough shape, and the government is trying to address it. But there’s another threat on the horizon: the US election.During their presidencies, both Joe Biden and Donald Tru...

12 Feb 202441min

This Sunday in Nevada, the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. Both teams, like lots of others in the league, have been owned by the same family for d...

8 Feb 202411min

The meltdown at FTX scared a lot of retail investors away from crypto. But many big banks have doubled down, and are pushing cryptocurrency more into the mainstream.In today’s episode of the Big Take ...

7 Feb 202410min

In September 2022, a tanker called the Queen Majeda was stopped by authorities in Albanian waters, stuffed to the gills with $2 million worth of marine gas oil. The ship was coming from Libya’s port o...

6 Feb 202413min

The seemingly vast profit potential of artificial intelligence has helped buoy the stock prices of tech behemoths like Alphabet, Apple and the rest of the Magnificent Seven. But last week’s earnings s...

5 Feb 202416min

When the US borrows money, just like any borrower, it needs to pay its loans back with interest.The national debt right now is $34 trillion and rising. Soon, America will need to spend more each year ...

2 Feb 202413min

Nayib Bukele has brought violent criminal gangs to a heel in El Salvador, transforming the country into one of the safest in Latin America. That’s made him extremely popular, even as human rights grou...

2 Feb 202415min