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Words & Numbers

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Words & Numbers is one of the highest-rated economics podcasts in the world. Each episode, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan dig into economics, political science, and current events to explain what’s actually happening and why it matters.

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Episode 418: Mere Economics 12.02.2025 34:25

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Episode 417: What Makes Us Red and Blue? 05.02.2025 29:16

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Episode 416: Who Did It Better: Obama, Trump, Biden 29.01.2025 27:38

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Episode 415: Learning to Love Lobbyists 22.01.2025 39:24

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Episode 414: Robovacs to Riches 15.01.2025 24:25

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Episode 413: Power and Denial: Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the 25th Amendment 08.01.2025 37:21

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Episode 412: What Do We Owe Each Other? 01.01.2025 29:29

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Episode 411: Tax Cuts: The Good, the Bad, and the Irrelevant 25.12.2024 33:52

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Episode 410: Mercantilism 2.0 18.12.2024 30:47

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Episode 409: Buy, Borrow, Die 11.12.2024 33:50

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Episode 408: Be Thankful! 04.12.2024 32:56

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Episode 407: Words & Numbers Live: After the Election (part 2) 27.11.2024 25:31

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Episode 406: Words & Numbers Live: After the Election 20.11.2024 36:18

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Episode 405: $22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 13.11.2024 30:21

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Episode 404: Dangers of Democracy 05.11.2024 32:44

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Episode 403: Crime Data: Revising History? 30.10.2024 29:50

This week, we address listener comments that the FBI crime data we reported in an earlier episode was flawed. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers Quick Hits https://brownox.com https://www.facebook.com/r...

Episode 402: Project Liberal 23.10.2024 32:27

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Episode 401: 20-to-1, Political Indoctrination in Higher Education 16.10.2024 38:19

Economist and author Bryan Caplan joins us to discuss how higher education has become a bastion of extreme leftist thought - so much so that professors that self-identify as Democrat outnumber professors that self-identify as Republican by 20-to-1. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your S...

Episode 400: Population Problems 09.10.2024 26:24

It was just a couple of decades ago that experts were wringing their hands over the coming population explosion that was going to kill us all. Now they are wringing their hands over the coming population crash that is going to kill us all. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support fo...

Episode 399: Lying Politicians 03.10.2024 26:43

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Episode 398: Alliteration Time: Trump, Tariffs, and Taxes 25.09.2024 33:07

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Episode 397: More on the Fed 20.09.2024 33:04

This week, we address listener questions from our earlier episode on the Fed. We also make incorrect predictions about whether the September cut in interest rates. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers Qui...

Episode 396: Unrealized Capital Gains 11.09.2024 26:28

The idea of an unrealized capital gains tax gains momentum every election season of late. This week, we take a look at what it is and why even the middle class should be very afraid. Foolishness of the Week: 07:34 Main episode: 11:12 Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support for Word...

Episode 395: The Fed 04.09.2024 32:02

Episode 395: The Fed What does the Fed do and how does it do it? Foolishness of the Week: 06:38 Main episode: 08:51 Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers Quick Hits https://apnews.com/article/harris-walz-a...

Episode 394: Candidates’ Attitudes 29.08.2024 30:39

Episode 394: Candidates’ Attitudes Unfortunately, when it comes to elections, often a smile is all it takes. Foolishness of the Week: 06:55 Main episode: 11:32 Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com See More Ant and James! http://www.wordsandnumbers.org Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers Quick H...