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Today, we hear from Satyajit Das, a risk consultant and author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives. Das' book was written before the financial crisis, but if you read it when it came out, not much of what happened during the crisis would have surprised you. It's a very detailed, very cynical account of what actually goes on inside Wall Street [...]
On today's Planet Money, listeners suggest ways to cut the federal budget -- and experts evaluate their suggestions. Among the ideas: Get rid of manned space flight, cut "welfare and warfare," and stop paying Social Security benefits to high earners. This is the first of several stories we'll be doing in the coming months on government spending, and the way things like earmarks, subsidies and entitlements affect our lives. Music: Gomez's "How We [...]
Over the past few years, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion* of mortgage bonds. It was a big move for the central bank, intended to prop up the housing market. But in all the discussion about the program, we never heard anybody explain how you actually buy all those bonds. On today's Planet Money, we go inside the Fed to find out. The answer involves a plain room with four small cubicles, a Nerf hoops net and a table-tennis [...]
Financial trickery! Self-dealing! CDOs! On today's podcast, we return to the last days of the housing bubble. Our story: A group of bankers knew there were serious problems in the market for subprime mortgage investments. But rather than wind the business down, they sped it up -- prolonging the bubble, and ultimately making the crisis worse. Music from The Delays' "Long Time [...]
On today's Planet Money, we talk to people who've been inside those rooms. And we unpack the latest Basel rules -- regulations that are supposed to apply to banks around the world, and that are due later this year. (Spoiler alert: They'll probably make the system safer. But they won't end financial [...]
It's really, really hard to create the right kind of economic incentives -- even if you're a professional economist, and all you're trying to do is teach your kids to use the toilet. On today's Planet Money, we talk to Joshua Gans, an economist at the University of Melbourne -- and his 11-year-old daughter. He explains the system he constructed and rules he enforced. But like tiny Wall-Street bankers, the kids figured out how to work the system for maximum [...]
Today, we hear from Nassim Taleb, the former Wall Street trader who published a book called the Black Swan back in 2007. The book argues that most economic models fail because they don't take into account rare, high-impact events that wind up driving history. (Taleb calls these events Black Swans.) The argument came out looking pretty good after the 2008 financial crisis. Earlier this year, a new edition of the book came out, with a new section called "On Robustness & Fragility." Among other things, the new section includes a prescription for withstanding a Black Swan. The [...]
On today's Planet Money, we leap 30 years into the future, a time, if current trends persist, when China's economy is bigger than America's. What does it look like? We're watching Chinese reality shows dubbed into English, and taking life-saving drugs invented by Chinese scientists. We're exporting more goods to China's growing middle class. The yuan probably has not supplanted the dollar as the world's reserve currency (and even if it has, it's not the end of the world). And Chinese people are still much poorer, on average, than people in the [...]
The network neutrality debate, which has been burning up the comments section of many a tech blog for several years now, hit mainstream media this week when Verizon and Google released a joint proposal for new legislation regulating the internet. The debate really boils down to the economics of the internet. How it operates, and who pays. On today's podcast, we put on flame-resistant suits and dive in. We talk to two economists to find out what net neutrality will mean for the future of the [...]
Right at this very moment, you and I, and the rest of the country are participating in one of the great economics experiments of all time. An experiment to test whether John Maynard Keynes' prescription for how to get out of a global depression actually works. The Obama administration calls it the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, you probably know it as the $787 billion stimulus package. Keynes wrote about the idea of stimulus in his 1936 book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. His theory simply put, was this -- sometimes economies go into a [...] |
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