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Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex

5/4/2026 • 37 min

Today on the Gist, parsing terrible geology analogies about gas prices dropping "like a rock" when they are actually shooting up like a rocket. Then, Joseph S. Moore joins the show to discuss his book, How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked and Didn't. He details his personal journey from a broke history graduate student t… Play episode

Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Ga…
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur
Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump
Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea
Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East
The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone
Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"
Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis
Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"
Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"
Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt
Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up
Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie
Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity
Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions
Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified
Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of th…
Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg
Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer
Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Lo…
Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours
Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocr…
Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat
Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong
Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole
Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson
Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"
Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"
The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War
Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic…
Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips
Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"
Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"
Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal
Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Sh…
Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"
Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild
Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life
Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"
Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage
Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Lo…

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