Ones and Tooze
Kanaal Besonderhede
Ones and Tooze
Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that ex...
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Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump is contemplating military action against Venezuela. Adam and Cameron discuss.
Also on the show: New York elec...
China Trade & The Louvre Heist
Adam and Cameron discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and how it could affect the ongoing trade war be...
Nobel Prize for Economics
Three people shared the Nobel Prize for economics this year—Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt—for their work on how innovation and creativ...
The Frankfurt Book Fair
Adam is attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. He and Cameron discuss the history of the fair and the broader economics of the publishing indust...
A Conversation with Michael Sandel
On a special bonus episode, Cameron sits down with American political philosopher Michael Sandel, the recipient of the 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philos...
The U.S. Government Shutdown
Government shutdowns are one of the peculiarities of the U.S. budgetary system. Once again, the two parties have failed to agree on the government’s d...
Introducing The Catch
We're jumping in the feed midweek to share a new season of FP's global fisheries podcast, The Catch.
This season is all about tuna. Clim...
The Trump Plan for Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan includes steps for rebuilding Gaza. What would it take to unwind the devastation, and what would the...
Trump and Latin America
President Donald Trump is reshaping U.S. policy toward Latin America. Adam and Cameron discuss the economic impact on Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico...
Bonus: Adam Tooze on Foreign Policy Live
Adam joined FP's other weekly podcast Foreign Policy Live to discuss his piece “The End of Development” in FP’s latest print issue.
Learn more a...
What AI Means for the Economy and for Politics
Adam and Cameron discuss the broad implications of artificial intelligence on the economy and on politics, in the first installment of an occasional s...
The State of Europe
Adam and Cameron discuss Europe's domestic politics, including the collapse of the French government, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's "autumn of re...
India and Tennis
The Trump administration’s 50 percent tariffs on India took effect last week. Adam and Cameron dive in.
Also on the episode: the economic...
The Future of the Federal Reserve
U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to oust a member of the Federal Reserve board raises broader questions about the agency’s future as an independen...
The Scale of China
Adam recently spent a month traveling around China. He and Cameron discuss the vast scale of the country and how its size bears on China’s economic, p...
Introducing Radio Davos
We're jumping into your feed midweek to share an interview with Adam from this past June by our friends at the Radio Davos podcast. We'll be back with...
The Doomsday Seed Vault
For years now, the Norwegian government has partnered with conservation groups to store seeds from around the world on an archipelago not far from the...
Tariffs and Gaza
The U.S. economy is starting to feel the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs—including the rise of inflation—but other consequences could take...
Whither Global Development?
Some 10 years ago, the United Nations came up with its Sustainable Development Goals, a series of objectives for the world around alleviating poverty...
Heterodox Economists: Karl Polanyi
Adam and Cameron continue their occasional series on heterodox economists. This week, they discuss the life and work of Karl Polanyi, an Austro-Hungar...
Heterodox Economists: Thorstein Veblen
Adam and Cameron continue their occasional series on heterodox economists. This week, they discuss the life and work of the American economist Thorste...
Heterodox Economists: John Kenneth Galbraith
For the month of July, Adam and Cameron are continuing their occasional series on heterodox economists. This week, they discuss the life and work of t...
The Global Art Market
The value of the global art market is roughly $57.5 billion—but it’s an opaque market and difficult to assess. Adam attended the international art fai...
New York and NATO
In June, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, won the Democratic Party’s mayoral primary election in New York City, defeating a widely...
The Economics of the Israel-Iran War
Adam and Cameron discuss the fighting between Israel and Iran, as well as its impact on oil markets, geopolitical alliances, and the ongoing conflict...
The Economics of Mass Deportation
The Trump administration is pushing immigration officials to deport at least 3,000 undocumented immigrants a day and up to a million this year. How wi...
Trump's Policy Bill
The big Republican policy bill that extends tax cuts and reduces funding to some important federal programs will also do something else: In the coming...
Trump's Trade War with Europe
The Trump administration has put its plans to impose a 50 percent tariff on all goods from Europe on hold for now. Adam and Cameron discuss the $236 b...
World War II Miniseries: Part 3
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Adam and Cameron are doing a three-part series on World War II. In Part 3, they look at the econom...
World War II Miniseries: Part 2
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Adam and Cameron are doing a three-part series on World War II. In Part 2, they look at the econom...
World War II Miniseries: Part 1
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Adam and Cameron are doing a three-part series on World War II. In Part 1, they look at the econom...
Heterodox Economists: Joseph Schumpeter
On this episode, we bring you the latest installment of Adam and Cameron’s occasional series on heterodox economists. Austrian Joseph Schumpeter produ...
Trump Looms Large in Canadian Election
In parliamentary elections next week, Canadians are expected to turn out in large numbers for the Liberal Party led by Mark Carney—in part as a reacti...
From the Archive: The Economic Thinking of Pope Francis
Given the news of Pope Francis's death this past week, we're sharing a bonus episode from the archive. This originally aired in March 2024 and is titl...
Why an Unstable Bond Market Is a Big Deal
As tariff concerns rippled through financial markets around the world this month, the 10-year yield on U.S. Treasury bonds advanced 50 basis points. T...
Trump’s Trade War with China
U.S. President Donald Trump reversed course this week as he announced a three-month pause on “reciprocal tariffs” but increased tariffs on China to 12...
The U.S.-China Economic Relationship
U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs have raised questions about whether this will be the moment that an all-out trade war breaks out with Chi...
The Business of Big Law in the United States
The legal services industry in the United States is a $300 billion business—bigger than any in the world. In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump...
A Conversation About Abundance
Adam and Cameron discuss Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.
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Trump's Economy
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade wars and other economic polices since his inauguration in January have helped wipe out some $4 trillion from U.S....