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Greg Rosalsky of National Public Radio’s podcast “Planet Money” (which aims to explain the economy to listeners) has returned back from “lengthy parental leave” smitten by leftist social media rants, as shown in Monday’s segment “Sleep training: Life preserver for parents or "symptom of capitalism"?” No surprise, given the
The presidential election merely confirms Russia’s descent into a full-blown military dictatorship
There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a price on something. For example: Surrogacy is a legal industry in parts of the United States, but not in much of the rest of the world. Assisted end-of-life is a legal medical transaction in some states, but is illegal in others.When we have those knee-jerk reactions and our gut repels us from considering something apparently icky, economics asks us to look a little more closely. Today on the show, we have three recommendations of thing...
Through the summer, I’ve had a few excuses for the links showing up at random times, or disappearing: technical disasters, our automated system crashing, unexpected illnesses and the like. But for the next two weeks, it will be none of these things that keep these links away from you: I am going on an honest-to-god holiday, the kind with beaches, pools, Dashiell Hammett and John Mortimer by the pool (in book form, I’m not having a holiday with a medium) and my son eating all the prawns off my plate. I haven’t quite finished my whole to-do list, so I’ll be working for another couple of ...
Since 2018, Greg Rosalsky has been a writer and reporter at NPR's Planet Money.