Ben Stein as an economics teacher in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
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The current economic upheaval has lots of us scrambling for our glossaries and history books.
Today on the show, the editor-in-chief of Investopedia walks us through three vocab terms — spanning topics from tariff history to market volatility — that are spiking on the website lately.
Related listening:
What can we learn from the year’s most popular econ terms?
What’s a moneyline bet anyway? (Apple / Spotify)
Why tariffs are SO back (Apple / Spotify)
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