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Eileen Appelbaum on Private Equity in Healthcare
CEPR's Eileen Appelbaum, co-author of *Private Equity at Work*, walks through the empirical evidence on PE-owned nursing homes, hospitals, and physician practices. We discuss the Atul Gupta NBER mort…
Olivier Blanchard on Inflation Targeting After 2022
Olivier Blanchard, former IMF chief economist now at PIIE, has argued that the Fed's 2% inflation target is too low for the supply-shock environment of the 2020s. We discuss why he thinks 3% would wo…
Nancy Folbre on the Care Economy
UMass Amherst's Nancy Folbre, author of *The Invisible Heart*, joins us to discuss why GDP systematically undercounts care work, what the BEA's household-production satellite account adds when includ…
Cobalt, Lithium, and the Battery Supply Chain
Roughly 70% of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lithium concentration in Australia, Chile, and China is similarly high. We trace the battery supply chain from extra…
Adele Morris on Carbon Border Adjustments
Brookings's Adele Morris has worked on carbon-pricing policy since the Clinton administration. We discuss the EU CBAM's design, its WTO compatibility, the spillover effects on Chinese and Turkish car…
Hilary Allen on Stablecoins and Why They Matter
American University's Hilary Allen, author of *Driverless Finance*, argues that stablecoins are crypto's only real product — and that the current regulatory vacuum is setting up the next financial-st…
Kate Bronfenbrenner on the UAW Stand-Up Strike
Cornell ILR's Kate Bronfenbrenner has tracked NLRB elections for thirty years. We walk through what made the 2023 UAW Big Three strike different — Shawn Fain's rolling strike strategy, the cost-of-li…
Jenny Schuetz on Why America Can't Build Housing
Brookings's Jenny Schuetz, author of *Fixer-Upper*, joins the show to examine why US metros consistently produce fewer housing units than demand requires. We discuss the state-versus-local zoning deb…
The IRA Two Years In: What Actually Got Built
Two years after the Inflation Reduction Act passed, the implementation data is in. We walk through the announced manufacturing investments — Hyundai Georgia, Form Energy West Virginia, Q Cells Dalton…
Mariana Mazzucato on the Entrepreneurial State
Mariana Mazzucato's *The Entrepreneurial State* argues that nearly every technology in the iPhone — touchscreen, GPS, internet, voice recognition, lithium-ion battery — originated in publicly-funded …