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What is the reason shipping containers have become so pricey? Joe Biden can make a deal with Europe to lower high-cost steel prices. How do you define a semiconductor? And why has America banned the export of it to China? If you’ve got questions about global trade—who doesn’t right now?—then the podcast Trade talks Most likely, there is an answer.

SoumayaKeynes is the co-host, trade editor and globalization expert. The EconomistChad P. Bown is a senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. They discuss trade news, from the bizarre to the fantastic. They drop a new episode about trade every other week, keeping up with the latest news and often adding value to guests working in trade (entrepreneurs, logistic managers, etc.). This product shows that complex macroeconomic problems can be reduced to the sum total of individual actions.

The podcast is also ahead of the curve. The podcast has been ahead of the curve too. “As there’s been this surge in demand, the ability to supply it all from the global trading system has struggled. Bown discussed how moving things has become more costly in an episode about the escalating shipping cost from March 2021. This observation was central to the most important economic story of the year.