390. Fed Up

Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES:Domonique Foxworth, sports analyst and former N.F.L. pla ... Show More

The N.F.L. is a powerful cartel with imperial desires. College football is about to undergo a financial reckoning. So maybe they should team up? (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES:DeMaurice Smith, former executive director of the National Football League Players Association ... Show More

In this episode we first published in 2021, the political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit. SOURCES:Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of politic ... Show More

Chief joins the show to talk about the Federal Reserve. We get into the rumor that we may be out of money by October, how the federal reserve was started, corruption at the top, and more. 

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the central bank's data-dependency forces it to act meeting by meeting. She spoke with host Tom Keene on the sidelines of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.See ... Show More

For over a decade, America’s central bank has had an inflation target of 2%. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it would keep its main interest rate unchanged in order to try and get inflation to that magic number. But what if the Fed is thinking about inflation all ... Show More

The US Federal Reserve chairman has said the central bank will continue to raise interest rates "if appropriate" as inflation remains "too high". Jerome Powell told an annual gathering of central bankers that the pace of price rises had fallen from a peak. The Director of the Bri ... Show More

Tendayi Kapfidze, chief economist at LendingTree, said in the Big Interview that he thinks the Fed may have overreacted to increased market volatility by signalling that it may put off further rate hikes. Now the market is reacting like they won't happen, which could lead to trou ... Show More

The US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced a 0.75% jump in interest rates, suggesting future increases could be smaller. Emergency warnings have been triggered in Japan as North Korea launches a ballistic missile. It marks a further increase in tensions on ... Show More

A lot of the time, economic policy can seem pretty impersonal — cold, hard, data-driven. But at the heart of the Federal Reserve are people: fallible, complicated people who are just doing their best to steer the economy in the right direction. Often, we remember them just for th ... Show More

L’effondrement de la Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) remet-il en cause le programme de lutte contre l’inflation menée par la Réserve fédérale (Fed) ? C’est la conviction partagée par de nombreux analystes. Ils s'attentent à ce que la Fed freine dorénavant la remontée des taux d'intérêt ... Show More