“The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money: The ‘Mincome’ Experiment”

“Between 1974 and 1979, the Canadian government tested the idea of a basic income guarantee (BIG) across an entire town, giving people enough money to survive in a way that no other place in North America has before…

“Buy These Pajamas & Rescue a Prostitute; Or, Why Rescue Brands Are Dumb”

“The actual ad copy is “Created by women in India who wish to remain free of sex slavery.” I wonder if were there other contenders for the spot of the word “wish”? “Wish” is nuts — so breezily hopeful…

“Fuhgeddaboudit: New York Accent On Its Way Out, Linguists Say”

“”Wealthy people, or middle-class people even, from all over the country, speak quite similarly to each other,” he says. “Working-class people really are the ones who maintain the local dialects.”

“The Miracle of Minneapolis”

“Shaver’s theory, which he’s developing into a book, is that Minneapolis is so successful at turning medium-size companies into giants because its most important resource never leaves the city: educated managers of every level, who can work at just about any company. Shaver…

“Episode 599: The Invisible Wall”

“Hernando de Soto wanted to figure out what was trapping people in poverty. “There’s gotta be an invisible wall someplace,” he thought. “Let’s find the wall.”

Today on the show: How de Soto found the invisible wall that was trapping people in…