Going Downhill
The hour-long This American Life episode that spawned this podcast was intelligent and to-the-point and, in fact, this podcast started off well, but, lacking the crisis to report on, it has gone downhill. Though naive enthusiasm is a good thing on the part of reporters, there is such a thing as too much ignorance. As an example, cherry picking their 'indicators' (at one point a word) redolent of selection bias and antecdotalism and about as relevant as the Colbert Report's 'Word of the Day' (and probably reaching for the same audience). It's jumped the shark.Read full review »
DaddyLight via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/07/08
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I think this is the best podcast I am subscibed to. Great people, a lot of humor, sophisticated, but not too much
Iggy S via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 02/27/09
At first this podcast was informative. But now the hosts seem to keep pushing the ideas that this financial crisis was purely accidental and so confusing there is nothing we can do. They have quotes from various experts, then casually dismiss the quotes that conflict with those ideas by emoting...Read full review »
paq via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/19/09
I highly recommend this. I'm educated, but not in economics, and I have learned a lot from following these reports. I appreciate that the presenter's are careful to explain terminology, that they report from a variety of perspectives, and that they have no political agenda or bias. ...Read full review »
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