Ever wondered why you can buy fresh Peruvian blueberries in the dead of winter? The answer, surprisingly, is tied to cocaine. Today on the show, we look at how the war on drugs led to an American trad...

Reciprocal deposits could fill a banking stability gap. But they have drawbacks of their own, according to a Poole scholar.

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Instead of attending the glitzy Hollywood ceremony, Soheila Golestani is on trial by the Revolutionary Court for her part in The Seed of the Sacred Fig

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On December 10, 2024, Daron Acemoglu delivered an acceptance speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, on behalf of himself, Simon Johnson, and James A.…

American buyers will soon face higher prices for foreign-made goods if President-elect Donald Trump carries out expected hikes in US import tariffs. On the campaign trail, Trump promised tariffs on all imports from 10 to 20 percent, with a special rate of 60 percent on all imports from China. Goods likely to see the largest proportional price increases are those facing currently low applied tariff rates and those that are sourced disproportionately from China.

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We analyze whether the social media popularity of scientists affects the number of academic citations. We use the COVID-19 global pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment exogenously increasing public a...

Donald Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him.

Under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, other countries will have two choices—they’ll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make...

Assessing the arguments for protectionism

Donald Trump proposed a heightened universal tariff on U.S. imports.

A new China-backed megaport in Peru may create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.