Eurodollar University

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The bread of this podcast hotdog features Jeff Snider putting into context how far behind the times monetary authorities are, and that all may not be as it seems with the appreciating Chinese currenc…

American economist and New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman entered the economics profession to follow in the footsteps of Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian living on Trantor, approximately 10,000 yea…

As your podcaster put the finishing touches on Episode 30 word came down from up-on-high: 'We need to do errata!'

Yes!  Finally!  This podcaster's long-time goal would be a reality: to make economics …

Advanced-economy money centers make the world go round.  In the early 1800s London and Paris funded globalization cycles.  Berlin and Vienna joined the exclusive club as the century waned; New York a…

In 1969 Johnny Carson was hosting The Tonight Show and, in one particular episode, Bob Hope headlined.  After Carson finished interviewing Hope he called out his next guest, George Gobel.  To everyon…

US President Harry Truman prosecuted the war to its conclusion, finishing his predecessor's near-impossible task. Then, with bitter irony, History reversed his role as "anchor" for the Second World W…

How much is several?  What is a few?  If you were to put a numerical value on "probably" would it be more, or less, than "likely"?  To your podcaster's great consternation the linguistic gatekeepers …

Last week, current and former Federal Reserve officials offered a mea culpa, saying the timing of the 2015-18 rate hikes may have curbed a potentially quicker recovery from 2008. Apparently, seven to…

"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Why do you seek me?"  They looked again in every part of the room, and then, seeing no one, Dorothy asked, "Where are you?"
"I am everywhere but to the eyes of common…

Magrathea.  It is one of legendary, advanced-economy planets of the human imagination sitting along side Asimov's Trantor of the Foundation Series, and Cybertron, home of the Autobots and Decepticons…

The final setting of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale occurs well into the future, at a symposium of historians examining the Handmaid era.  Your podcaster expects a similar, future gathering of…

Life is full of problems. And when particularly irritated by them, we turn to professionals for help.  Sure, men - especially the married kind - will insist they can take care of it.  Plumbing?  No p…

Baseball.  The nation's pastime.  For well over a century the sport has nestled itself in the romantic nook of America's soul.  Its greatness captured in sentimental movies like The Natural and Field…

Now, admittedly SOME commodity prices have gone up.  Half of the agricultural and livestock prices are up year-to-date.  Copper is up!  But these are the results of supply line disruptions and demand…

2008. Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first business meeting of what would become the best-known chemist team since Nobel-prize winners Molina, Crutzen and Rowland was not auspicious.  Pinkman wanted to…

Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Buddha, Confucius, Rousseau, Aristotle, Bastiat, Molinari, Cicero, Hegel, Hobbes, Kant... LL Cool J.  The contemporary philosopher sits on the social and political branch of t…

After half-a-century, some 8,000 episodes and numerous tournament of champions the American television game show Jeopardy! decided to hold its definitive contest to determine its ultimate victor.  Th…

Published in 1862, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is "the novel of the century" according to David Bellos, professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University.  When asked on The Gr…

Your podcaster shunned traditional university education and instead sought a guild apprenticeship. Drawn to parapsychology and the occult even as a sma' one, it was natural this podcaster's inclinati…