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Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn't change. From 1886 until the late 1950s, a bottle of coke…
Earlier this fall, the Federal Trade Commission filed a high-stakes lawsuit against Amazon. In that suit, the FTC claims Amazon is a monopoly, and it accuses th…
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015 . German families in the 60s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken that was suddenly coming in after the war. And…
This episode originally ran in 2015. About one hundred years ago, a scientist and statistician named Francis Galston came upon an opportunity to test how well r…
In the past few months, the price of gold has gone way up – even hitting a new high last month at just over $2,400 per troy ounce. Gold has long had a shiny qua…
For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to get a cow, raise…
(Note: This episode originally ran in 2018 .) Is it really cheaper to shop at an airport Duty Free store? And why are so many of them alike? In the 1940s, if yo…
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the fundamental principles of economics and civilization: spontaneous order and law. Drawing on volume one …
It's history time! Or even [pre-]ART History time! We didn't take a picture this time. Please imagine what we looked like. This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were…
Marketing podcast with Dan Pink My father was a salesman in the classic Willy Loman kind of way, without the sad tragedy part. He got up each week, packed his b…
