The New Bazaar
Episodes
Ideas for a Post-YIMBY Housing Future
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Arpit Gupta, a finance professor at NYU who has made important contributions on a startingly high number of topics, speaks with Cardiff about his late...
The Roots of our Zero-Sum Moment
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stefanie Stantcheva is an economist at Harvard and the head of the Social Economics Lab, where her team has done extraordinary work investigating how ...
AI and the Human Touch
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
EIG chief economist Adam Ozimek chats with Cardiff Garcia about Adam’s new post, AI and the Economics of the Human Touch. An excerpt: Eith...
Crime, Leniency, and the Science of Second Chances
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Doleac is an economist and the director of the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures. She joins Cardiff on the show to chat about her upcomi...
The Licensing Racket
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 30 million workers, or roughly one in five workers throughout the country, are required to have a professional license before they can do their...
The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable asset
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bird, the Wall Street editor of The Economist, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset....
Lessons of the Rare Earths Showdown
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can the United States make its economy more resilient not just to future economic shocks but the threat of such shocks from its geopolitical rival...
Housing and the Politics of Place
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What accounts for the astonishing streak of YIMBY wins this year — and which concessions, if any, should they consider offering to the NIMBYs? Shoul...
Attention and the Possibility of Persuasion
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerusalem Demsas is one of Cardiff’s favorite econ and housing journalists, a previous New Bazaar guest, and now the founder and editor of The Argum...
Is the US about to fix its housing problem?
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ROAD (Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream) to Housing Act is a bipartisan bill now making its way through Congress. And as today’s g...
Bubbly markets and the TACO trade
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Armstrong is the writer who first coined the acronym in The TACO Trade, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, in a column back in April. He ...
AI and Jobs: What Do We Really Know?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will artificial intelligence help you do your job, or will it just straight-up do your job and leave you unemployable? Or will the future bring s...
The US-China Trade War: Causes and Consequences
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to think of a better guide to the ongoing US-China trade war than Evan Medeiros. A professor at Georgetown University's School of Forei...
Tariffs and the global fallout
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chad Bown is not just among the world’s most respected trade economists. He is also perhaps the single most careful tracker of real-time trade activ...
Post-Bidenomics and what comes next
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joining Cardiff for this episode is Jared Bernstein, who was most recently the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for President Joe Biden follo...
High-skilled Immigration: The Way Ahead to Stay Ahead
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode, Cardiff chats with his EIG colleagues Adam Ozimek, chief economist, and Connor O’Brien, research analyst, about the one policy...
AI and the Global Battle for Tech Supremacy
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not often that someone comes up with a new, provocative, and persuasive theory about the competition between the US and China to be the world’...
Election freakouts and American workers
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How close is the 2024 presidential election? Here is how the New York Times framed it recently: “Never in modern presidential campaigns have so...
How to Slay Economic Zombies
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the right foreign economic policy toward China? Did the Fed cut rates in time to avoid a recession? Have agglomeration economies been changed ...
Is the Introvert Economy here to stay?
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The introverts have taken over the US economy."That's the provocative title of a recent Bloomberg column from economist Allison Schrager. As she look...
Immigration and the border: the real story
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When people talk about the crisis at the border between the US and Mexico, what specifically are they referring to?The Department of Homeland Security...
If econs could hoop
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the Magic Johnson of economics? Who was the Adam Smith of basketball?On this fun and oddball episode of The New Bazaar, Cardiff speaks with Tyl...
Hoop dreams of electric sheep
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has unusually written an unusual book.The data analysis included in "Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's ...
A glimpse inside Biden’s CEA
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martha Gimbel and Gopi Shah Goda were formerly economists within the White House Council of Economic Advisors, or CEA. They look back on their ti...
Angus Deaton on life in America
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angus Deaton—Scottish immigrant, Nobelist, and one of Cardiff's favorite economists—has written a new, forthcoming book titled Economics in Americ...
How Vince McMahon built an entertainment empire
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're sharing another episode of a podcast we think you might like. It's called The Closer and it's hosted by executive producer of The New Bazaar, Ai...
William Bernstein on stocks, bonds, and the economy
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These are confusing times for the economy and for financial markets—and for the relationship between the economy and financial markets. At the ...
The economics of innovation
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within economics, there's a semi-famous quote from the economist Paul Krugman: “Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run, it's almost ever...
Inside Facebook's biggest acquisition
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're sharing a special episode of a podcast we think you might like. It's called The Closer and it's hosted by executive producer of The New Bazaar, ...
How to save democratic capitalism
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The combination of a markets-based capitalist economy and a liberal democracy with almost-universal suffrage is very young, having existed for barely ...
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode from the podcast Macro Musings, hosted by economist David Beckworth. David interviews Cardiff along with Heather Long of the...
Artificial intelligence and the economy of the future
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joining Cardiff for this episode is Avi Goldfarb, Rotman Chair In Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare At The Rotman School Of Management, Universit...
160 years of the racial wealth gap
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special, between-the-seasons episode of the New Bazaar.Right now, the white-to-black wealth ratio in the United States is roughly 6 to 1. Wh...
What do we think?
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 50th (!) episode of The New Bazaar, and the Season 1 Finale. Cardiff and Aimee are planning to launch Season 2 later in the fall, and even...
The moral consequences of economic growth, revisited
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Friedman is an economist and the author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (2005) and Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (2021).&n...
Upending Wall Street
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dakin Campbell is the chief finance correspondent at Insider and, full disclosure, Cardiff's close friend. He joins Cardiff on the show to discuss his...
Inflation: a guide for the perplexed
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are three things to know about inflation. First, according to a survey of public opinion by Pew Research taken in May, the public views infl...
Your questions, answered!
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiff and Aimee answer your questions about markets, the economy, the first season of the podcast and our company, Bazaar Audio. Go to bazaarau...
The hopeful, undetermined future of remote work
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about remote wok. (Or as it is also sometimes known, telework, or telecommuting, or just working from home.)The trend towards remo...
The life and work of Leonard Wantchekon
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a young man in his native Benin, Leonard Wantchekon was arrested for leading a student uprising against the repressive government, tortured in pris...
How monetary policy works (and doesn't)
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America, an organization that advocates for strong labor markets. He recently published a research...
An economy for everyone
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Sandbu is European Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, where he also writes Free Lunch, a weekly newsletter about global economic pol...
Shattering immigration myths
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Economic historian Leah Boustan joins Cardiff to discuss her new book, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success", co-authored wit...
The economy in one (more) episode
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Klein, co-author of "Trade Wars are Class Wars" and old friend of the show, returns for another special collaborative episode. Matt writes the ex...
Finance portrayed in arts and culture
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Childs—author of The Bond King, cohost of the Planet Money podcast, and dear pal of Cardiff and Aimee—joins The New Bazaar to discuss how fin...
What Neoliberalism Means Now
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiff speaks with Jeremiah Johnson, the co-founder and political director of The Neoliberal Project, to discuss the historical evolution of what it ...
When innovation arrives too early
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're sharing an episode from our friends over at Cautionary Tales. On the show, Tim Harford tells tragic stories from the past, point...
When the economics is personal
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jose Fernandez, chair of the economics department at the University of Louisville, has an unusually eclectic body of work.He speaks with Cardiff about...
How to fix the housing market
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Schuetz is a scholar of the housing market, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has a new book out called Fixer-Upper: How to ...
The power of glamour
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Glamour is a misunderstood concept. A lot of people associate it with glossy pictures of movie stars and celebrities in ritzy settings, or with other ...
Hollywood, China: an epic of globalization
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Erich Schwartzel joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy". For the pas...
The strange past and unsettled future of money
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Goldstein, author of "Money: The True Story of a Made-up Thing" and host of the new podcast "What's Your Problem?", joins Cardiff to discuss the...
The intangible economy
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is about something you might have noticed just by looking around you. Especially if you’re old enough.The economy has been shiftin...
Understanding crypto
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At first it was just Bitcoin. Now when someone refers to crypto, they might be talking about ethereum, NFTs, ICOs, smart contracts, DAOs, and a whole ...
Energy markets in turmoil
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Kemp is senior market analyst at Reuters, where he specializes in oil and energy systems. Having covered these systems for the past quarter-centu...
A Wall Street casino heist
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap are the authors of the book The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and ...
The housing dilemma
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Logan Mohtashami is the lead analyst at Housingwire, where he writes about the housing market and the US economy. And before that, he spent a few deca...
The borders between us
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Watson is an economist and the co-author, with Kalee Thompson, of a new book, “The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fea...
Tech we want but don't deserve
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shira Ovide writes the excellent On Tech newsletter at the New York Times. On this episode of The New Bazaar, Shira tells Cardiff about the technology...
Markets, growth, and the arts
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More than two decades ago, economist Tyler Cowen published "In Praise of Commercial Culture" -- his first in a series of books about the relationship ...
The monopoly on MONOPOLY
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're sharing a special episode of a podcast we think you might like. It's called Cautionary Tales, and it's made by Tim Harford ...
Trust me, I’m an economist
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Ho’s latest book is called Why Trust Matters: An Economist’s Guide to the Ties that Bind. His chat with Cardiff is about exactly that: Ho...
Listener Q&A episode
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To wrap up 2021, The New Bazaar answers questions sent in by listeners. The episode also features, for the first time in front of the mic, executive p...
BONUS: Three econ stories
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having guided Cardiff through the craft of economic storytelling in the prior episode, Tim Harford returns to explain the lessons of three economic st...
The craft of economic storytelling
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Harford is the author of numerous terrific economics books and the host of two great podcasts: “Cautionary Tales”, about what we should learn ...
How we choose
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vicki Bogan is an economist who specializes in financial economics, household finance, and behavioral finance – in other words, a specialist in how ...
A hopeful vision of work
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The labor market is in a weird place -- millions of fewer workers are employed than before the pandemic, yet millions of more jobs are available and w...
MMA and the business of America
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you look at some of the big and mostly troubling economic trends in the overall US economy from the last three or four decades, the business of the...
Cogs and monsters and economists, oh my!
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Economists don’t just try to understand the economy. They also influence it. Because as they share their analysis and understanding of it, people an...
The econ fight inside the Right
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At least rhetorically, the politically conservative approach to economics was once associated with lower taxes, deregulation of the economy, cutting g...
The economy in one episode
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this special collaborative episode of The New Bazaar, Cardiff has teamed up with his friend and former colleague Matt Klein, who writes The Oversh...
Mortality and the economy
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Case and Angus Deaton are the authors of the book Deaths of Despair -- which is also a phrase that refers to the combination of deaths resulting ...
The synthesist and the radical
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Wapshott speaks with Cardiff about his new book, Samuelson Friedman, about the fierce economic debates between economists Paul Samuelson and ...
What next for global trade
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The common argument for why countries should be open to trading with each other has always been simple: free trade is good for economic growth, econom...
The business of Broadway
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiff has a theory -- somewhat half-baked, he admits -- that only when Broadway has fully recovered from the pandemic will we know that the overall ...
When talent is no longer wasted
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1960, only six percent of all the doctors and lawyers in the country were either women (of all races and ethnicities) or men of color. All the rest...
Machiavelli’s guide for women at work
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of the new book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. She is also Car...
The meaning of gentrification
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gentrification is a trend that can be confusing, contentious, and widely misunderstood. Perhaps most surprisingly, gentrification can offer “the pro...
A short history of longer life
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For almost all of human history and pre-history -- going back tens of thousands of years -- the average human life expectancy was about 35 years or le...
Bad bubble behavior
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Delusions of Crowds, finance theorist William Bernstein writes about some of the famous financial bubbles and religious manias of the past. He ...
Our inescapable experiences
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ulrike Malmendier is the premier economic scholar for understanding how our experiences affect our decisions, even in ways we might not recognize. Ulr...
A story of poker and risk
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, Maria Konnikova took a leave from her job as a psychology journalist at The New Yorker to try something new: become a professional po...
Identity in America
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Hugo Lopez is the director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center. He and his colleagues recently conducted a sweeping survey abou...
The great turnaround
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Economist Peter Blair Henry has dedicated his career to understanding how a developing country can become more prosperous, lift more people out of pov...
Introducing The New Bazaar
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new podcast about how the economy shapes our lives. The first episode will be available on Thursday, August 12. See you then! Hosted on Acast. See a...