"The Uncertain Hour" is a great podcast that focuses at a very personal level on how macro economics affects real people. I subscribed after one episode. The podcast focuses on a simple observation, that "sometimes the things that what we fight the most about are the things we know the least about." This reminds me of the quote attributed to Mark Twain: "It ain't what you know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." I believe Twain's wise words may have also been quoted in the movie "The Big Short."

Facts, context and clear thinking make this podcast worth your time every time a new one is released.

What a great story. Until the end. When you came up with excuses why the great work that had been done was all bad. Of course more jobs are available when there are more jobs! And then to make comments that the work that the woman did was so difficult. And if she really wanted to be a nurse instead of work in a clothing shop, she surely could have pursued that at night. That is what my mother did. And I worked and went to school at night. Yep, life is difficult. I am in constant search of how we can make this world better, but in your search to bash success you made it a little worse. Richard

Captured my attention on the radio and I went home to look up the podcast. The cast does a great job turning in-depth journalistic work into a narrative that captures the listener's attention. In-depth, balanced research kept my attention... well worth a listen for your commute or run.

Excellent journalism!

Thanks for doing it.

Great things comes from these people. They make some of the most interesting and innovative radio/podcast I have listened to. BUT it seems like everything they do is repeated on other Marketplace shows. Considering this show has a large audiance overlap to Marketplace, I hope they get more unique and not repeated works specific to this cast.

Great series, very informative! I live next door in Glassell Park... We are facing the same challenges; hopefully, this series will educate new comers on how to blend in with our community and dissuade them from trying to take over our neighborhoods....