Gene Freidman built a taxi empire. We visited him before he was in legal trouble.

The World Trade Organization: Can't live with it, hard to crush your trade opponents without it.

Class actions run from big civil rights cases to arguments about pepper. Are they noble, or silly?

We meet the man who invented duty free shopping and find out if these tax free stores are really saving us any money.

Today on the show: A chicken index, some Wall Street investors, and an unlikely whistle-blower.

California is way more than Hollywood. Today on the show, we look at what else is going on in this powerhouse state economy.

Today on the show: How a cheese cartel abandoned the rules of economics and convinced the world to eat fondue.

Unordered trinkets have been arriving at homes around the country. We try to find out why.

Today on the show: the economics of drought, and why the rational thing to do in California right now is use more water.

Today on the show, we connect the dots between New York, Uganda, Prague, and China's thirst for resources. (Music Credit: Thanks to musician Giovanni Kiyingi for the use of his song "Kaleeba" from the album Amakondeere.)