"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg
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Apr 21, 2025
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Economist and "Noahpinion" writer Noah Smith and investor Erik Torenberg make sense of what’s happening in the news, technology, business, and beyond, through the lens of economics. Econ 102 is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: turpentine.co
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Making Sense of Milei, AI & Employment, and America's Future
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Sam D'Amico and Noah Smith on How China Masters Manufacturing (And How America Can Catch Up)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The 2nd China Shock: Why Chinese Companies Are Making Zero Profit
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Derek Thompson on Why America Can't Build, Abundance, and Substack
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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What Replaces Twitter? With Noah Smith & Chris Best, CEO of Substack
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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China, Tesla, and the Electric Tech Stack Revolution
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Cost Disease, USAID Debate, and is Curtis Yarvin Trapped in 2020
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Noah Smith & Matt Yglesias on the Electric Technology Crisis, China, and America's Future
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May 28, 2025 |
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India-Pakistan, Building Back Military Power, and Immigration
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Middle Class Myth, China's Future, and What Really Happened in 1971
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May 15, 2025 |
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You Can't Tariff Your Way to Greatness
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Deindustrialization Paradox
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The Bond Market Rules Everything
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Tariff Mayhem and Capital Flight
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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The New Left vs The New Right
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Abundance Debate, Sex Politics, and Left vs Right Economic Populism
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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How Europe, America and China are Repositioning
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Making Sense of America's Tariff Chaos
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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AI, Stargate, & Surveillance with Auron McIntyre and Lev Polyakov
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Richard Hanania & Noah Smith: Making Sense of Trump, Elon, and Global Politics
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Elon calls Noah a Liar, Inflation, and Changes Democrats Need to Make
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Europe's Fate, Ukraine & Russia, and the Post-American Era
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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How the Macro, Tariffs and DOGE will Impact your Bank Account | Noah Smith on How To Money
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Elon's Real Goal at DOGE & How to Fix the Debt
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Patrick Collison & Noah Smith: How Can the US Stay Ahead Technologically?
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Understanding US-China Relations Right Now with Nathan Labenz
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Paul Krugman on Leaving NYT, America's Economy, and Trump
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Trump's Executive Orders, China's Economy, The Bull Case for the Middle East, and Europe's Decline
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Noah Smith on Taiwan's Future, Nuclear Proliferation, and Trump 2.0 [ChinaTalk]
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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A Debate with Scott Sumner: Industrial Policy, China, and National Security
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Canada After Trudeau, Immigration Debate, and China's Economy
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Trump, Tariffs, and the New 80s: America's Next Cultural Reset
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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China's Demographic Time Bomb and America's Economic Future
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Relationships, Gender Wars, and Online Culture with Katherine Dee (Default Friend)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The New Left, Health Insurance Myths, and Solving Underpopulation
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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A Debate on Immigration, Ethnostates, and National Identity
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Vitalik Buterin & Noah Smith | Is Authoritarianism Inevitable?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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DOGE, Political Realignment, and the End of 'Groups'
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Post-Trump Reflections: Fixing Blue Cities
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Trump and Shadow President Elon
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Trump vs Kamala, Hereticon, Election Craziness
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Mini: Comparing the New Axis to WWII
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Mini: Tariffs on China, Trump, and National Security
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Progressivism: Past, Present, Future
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Comparing Trump, Biden, and Obama's China Strategies
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Why Nations Fail, AI & Jobs, Economics as a Science
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Kamala vs. Trump: Economic Plans and Foreign Policy Showdown
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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International Development, The Reserve Currency, and Xi Jinping’s Legacy
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Noah's new book topic, Evaluating Immigration, Saving Midwestern Cities
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Fracking, China, Immigration
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Preparing for a Second China Shock and Bad Economists with Brad DeLong
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The New Axis, Neoliberalism, and Germany [Mailbag]
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI's Moat, Risk, and SB 1047
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Kamala/Trump Policy Discussion: Housing, Immigration, Tariffs
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Tech Maturity and What Lies Ahead
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Explaining Kamala’s VP Pick, the US Economy, Venezuela’s Fall and China’s Rise
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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AI, Software, and White-Collar Jobs
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Kamala's Chances, Biden/Trump's Legacy
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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J.D. Vance, Biden's Path Forward, and Silicon Valley’s Shift to Trump
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Evaluating Trump’s Policy Platform
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The 'Be Careful What You Wish For' Episode
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Trump/Biden, Chomsky/Foreign Policy, & Romantic Relationships
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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The Macro Episode
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Europe, Immigration, and Taiwan
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Vibecession & the Future Economy under Trump vs Biden with Kyla Scanlon
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Elite Overproduction and the Future of the Right
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May 29, 2024 |
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Controlling US Inflation, Global Trade, and the Future of India and Japan
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May 22, 2024 |
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Case for Biden, Biden vs Trump, China
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May 15, 2024 |
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Biden's New Tax Plan, Algorithmic Pricing, and Noah's Media Diet
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May 10, 2024 |
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How the Fed Works, Currency Crises, and TikTok ban [Listener Mailbag]
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May 01, 2024 |
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Wealth Distribution, Fixing Healthcare, and UBI
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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WW3 Analysis: China, The US, Ukraine, The Middle East
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Fixing the US Economy: the Debt, Inequality, Biden/Trump Economic Predictions
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Analyzing Economies Round 3: Middle East, Africa, South America, and North America
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Analyzing Economies: England, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey, and the EU/European Immigration
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Analyzing Economies: USA, China, Japan, Russia, India, Korea, and more
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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AI's Influence on the Economy with Nathan Labenz
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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How We Build More Housing with Brad Hargreaves
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Building a Multi Racial Society
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Putin, Tucker, and Russia
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How International Development Works
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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A Deep Dive on Tariffs
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Is the Great Stagnation Over?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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A Deep Dive into Japan
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Should We Prepare For a Recession?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Claudine Gay's Resignation from Harvard & Problems Plaguing Academia & Research
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Trump/Biden, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, and US/China w/ Dan Romero
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Making Sense of Argentina: Inflation, Milei, Macro with Sebastian Bensusan
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The Truth About Inflation
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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America's View on Immigration
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Which energy source is best w/ Age of Miracles
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The Trillion Dollar Non-Profit Sector, The Politicization of Science, & AI Tutors
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Sam Altman, the Microsoft Bull Case, OpenAI and AI Live Players - The Riff with Byrne Hobart
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Singapore, Xi Jingping Cleans Up SF, & Progressive Dystopias
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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China, Russia, the Middle East, and Geopolitical Predictions
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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What's Really Happening With the Economy?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Techno-Optimism, Nuclear Energy, and How To Enable More Innovation
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Why Pax Americana is Dying and What Happens if China Attacks Taiwan
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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This is not normal, even for war | Israel, Hamas, Palestine, Iran, and Saudi Arabia
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Where Bernie Sanders Went Wrong, PMC Socialists, and Student Loan Relief
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Why the Next Age of Globalization Will Be Awesome, a Cheaper US Dollar, and Reducing the Deficit
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Why Vivek is the Wrong Candidate, the new China-Russia Axis, and Ranking Presidents’ Foreign Policy
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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DM Debates, AI, and Tech Downturns with Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Fiscal Dominance, the War in Ukraine's Actual Cost, and Fact Checking Rich Men North of Richmond
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Why China is Primed for Economic Carnage Worse than the US Financial Crisis of 2008
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Student Debt, Wealth Inheritance, and Millennial Conservatism
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Economist's Mike Bird Debates Noah on Industrial Policy
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Higher Ed, Being a Dorm Room Socrates, and the American Workforce
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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California Land Use, The Best American City, San Francisco Politics, and more with Dan Romero
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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China’s Housing Bubble, Healthcare Crisis, and Taiwan Relations
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Why Libertarianism Fragmented, How the Right Became Statist, and Culture Wars
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Foreign Policy, Industrial Policy, and Reflections on Biden thus far
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Jul 11, 2023 |