Podcasts by The Pay Check

Spain: A Time-Tested Model for Economic Security from 2022-06-30T08:00

For the last seven weeks, we’ve gone around the world to see how the pandemic led to more or less economic equality. There were some pleasant surprises and some devastating stories. In the seaso...

Singapore: Who Gets to Be Crazy Rich? from 2022-06-22T20:00

Singapore's carefully controlled housing market has been a key factor in its economic success over the last 60 years. But when the pandemic ushered in the city's worst-ever recession, property p...

Mexico: Choosing the Economy Over Life from 2022-06-16T08:00

Mexico’s handling of the pandemic has been largely driven by its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his desire to keep the economy open. That’s meant few restr...

Hawaii: When a Billionaire Buys Your Hometown from 2022-06-09T02:30

One of the defining trends of the pandemic has been the creation of extreme wealth at the very top. This week on The Pay Check we take a look at the booming fortunes of the world’s growing billi...

India: Why Did Working Women Disappear? from 2022-06-02T00:00

Even before the pandemic, the proportion of women in India's workforce was falling. Covid made it so much worse. This episode of The Pay Check looks at where India's working women went during th...

Kenya: The Lost Girls from 2022-05-26T08:00

An increase in teen pregnancies in Kenya is part of a shadow pandemic that ripped through developing nations during Covid, setting women’s progress back generations. In this episode of The...

U.S.: Where Cash Made All the Difference from 2022-05-19T08:00

When the Covid-19 pandemic started, many people expected inequality to get worse in the U.S. But at least for the bottom 50% of Americans, something surprising happened: Many of the least advant...

Brazil: The Cautionary Tale from 2022-05-12T08:00

This season on the Pay Check, we're going to seven different countries to see how a global pandemic shifted the balance between the richest and the poorest people -- and affected everyone in bet...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season Four from 2022-05-05T08:00

The pandemic created a global economic crisis that economists and experts expected would lead to greater wealth inequality than ever before. Host Rebecca Greenfield along with a team of Bloomber...

Introducing: White Picket Fence from 2021-12-01T09:00

This special episode of The Pay Check features "What Could Have Been", the latest episode of White Picket Fence from Wonder Media Network.

How did the U.S. become a society that treats car...

Introducing: Breakthrough from 2021-10-07T08:00

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a myst...

Bonus: The Making of The Pay Check from 2021-06-03T08:00

With the season behind us, Rebecca Greenfield and Jackie Simmons sat down during the Bloomberg Businessweek conference to go inside the making of The Pay Check. They talked about how the series ...

Moving Forward by Looking Back from 2021-04-29T08:00

For our final episode of season 3, we take a look at how reckoning with our history, collectively, and personally, can help us move forward. Closing the racial wealth gap might not be possible a...

Reparations Gone Wrong from 2021-04-22T08:00

Reparations for slavery in the U.S. aren't happening any time soon. But there are other countries that have compensated populations for persecution. This week, the Pay Check heads to the U.K., w...

A Reparations Experiment from 2021-04-15T08:00

This week on the Pay Check, we look at the long fight for reparations for slavery in the U.S. Economists have calculated that each Black American is owed around $300,000, which would just about ...

The Problem With Affirmative Action from 2021-04-08T08:00

For the last few weeks, we've talked about the origins of the racial wealth gap. This week, we're turning our attention to one of the first major efforts to create more economic opportunity for ...

The Black Homeownership Tax from 2021-04-01T08:00

Homeownership has been a main source of intergenerational wealth in the U.S. But it’s one that is out of reach for many Black Americans. Decades after fair housing reforms, the dramatic disparit...

A Quick Note From The Pay Check from 2021-03-29T15:16:36

The Pay Check team has a request for our listeners. Experts estimate closing the racial wealth gap would cost around $13 trillion. That amounts to around $300,000 for every Black American. We wa...

'The Last Plantation' from 2021-03-25T08:00

The top five White landowners in the U.S. own more land than all the Black landowners combined. And over the last century, Black farmers have lost nearly all of the land they once owned. But in ...

The Unrelenting Cost of Slavery from 2021-03-18T08:00

This week, we look at the 400 years of U.S. history that help explain today's racial wealth gap. Bloomberg economics reporter Catarina Saraiva takes co-hosts Jackie Simmons and Rebecca Greenfiel...

Introducing: Doubt from 2021-03-15T08:00

A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people questioning vaccines risks prolonging a pandemi...

An Asset Becomes a Liability from 2021-03-11T09:00

In the season three premiere of The Pay Check, we're switching gears. For the next eight weeks, we'll be looking at the racial wealth gap in the U.S. Why Black people, who make up around 13% of ...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3 from 2021-03-01T20:47

More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average Black family. Season 3 of The Pay Check dig...

Introducing Foundering from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Adam Neumann had a vision: to make his startup WeWork a wildly successful company that would change the world. He convinced thousands of other people -- customers, employees, investors -- that he c...

Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season of Prognosis, reporter John Tozzi explores what went wrong. 

Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky, hosts Nikki Ekstein and Mark Ellwood have a whole new series of flight hacking, restaurant sleut...

Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this new season of Prognosis, we look at the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. You're probably more likely to have heard of these as superbugs. Their rise has b...

Live From London: Equal Pay for Equal Play from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Pay Check is back with a bonus episode on gender equality in women’s soccer. A few months ago, the US women’s soccer team filed a pay discrimination lawsuit alleging that they do not get equal ...

Help Wanted from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

During World War II, the influx of women workers into the workforce solved one problem—the labor shortage—while creating another: Who would watch the kids? To address it, the U.S. government create...

The No-Child Policy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about how having kids makes it hard for women to work for pay. But there’s a flip side to that: Because it’s so hard for women to work for pay when they h...

Introducing: Business of Bees from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee pollination. And the economic value of insect pollination worldwide is estimated to be about $217 bil...

What About Dads? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When we talk about the gender pay gap, we’re talking about a ratio: how much women make compared to men. We’ve spent the last three weeks talking about what happens to women’s earnings when they be...

The Bad Economics of Childcare from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We know working moms make less than men partly because they work fewer hours, and one of the main reasons for that is: childcare. Because, well: someone has to take care of the kids. In this episod...

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek speak with expert guests each week about the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks to bonds...

The Pregnant Pause from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this episode, we begin at the beginning: with pregnancy. Women with kids get sidelined at work even before they arrive. From the moment a woman gets pregnant—or reaches the age when she might ge...

The Motherhood Penalty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the season premier of The Pay Check, we take a close look at the single biggest reason for the gender pay gap: Motherhood. Women start out their careers earning about as much as men, but the pay...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Pay Check is back for a second season! For the next six weeks, we’re going to dig into the number one reason women still make less money than men: Motherhood. Women start their careers earning ...

A Message from The Pay Check from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Pay Check is collecting stories for our upcoming season, and we want to hear from you! Did having a kid change your career trajectory or the way you work? If you have anything you want to share...

Introducing "Works For Me," A New Podcast From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Francesca Levy and Rebecca Greenfield navigate the productivity industry by way of their own experiences. In each episode, one of the two becomes a human guin...

Travel Genius, a New Show From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What’s the most sure-fire way to get a flight upgrade? How can you find the best, secret local restaurants by asking just one question? What's the first thing you should do when you get into a hote...

Prognosis, a New Show From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Where does a medical cure come from? 100 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for scientists to test medicines by taking a dose themselves. As medical technologies get cheaper and more accessible, patient...

'This is My Number' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the third episode of the podcast’s conversation series, Michele Roberts, the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America, talks to Emily Bazelon, a journalist and lawy...

'Why Aren't There More Women in Poker?' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Pay Check continues its conversations series. First, we hear from Annie Duke and Maria Konnikova about power dynamics and sexism in the ultra male dominated field of professional poker. Then, j...

‘Have you ever been sexually harassed?’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

After The Pay Check ended, conversations about the pay gap didn’t—so we decided to listen in. We went out and found some of the smartest women we know and had them talk about what it's like to be a...

Get Yourself Paid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

So far, the pay gap has proved pretty impossible to solve. But most of us aren’t just going to sit here and accept that we’ll be paid less than men for our entire careers. In the last episode of Th...

Treating the Disease from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The pay gap goes way deeper than just men's and women's salaries—that's why just paying women more doesn't solve the problem. In this episode, Claire Suddath talks to Salesforce.com Inc., the San F...

The Shaming Initiative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Can companies be shamed into closing the pay gap? A new law in the U.K. requires companies with more than 250 employees to publicly disclose their gender pay gaps. More than 10,000 companies report...

The Gray Areas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Skeptics say the gender pay gap is explained by choices women make about family and career. Rebecca Greenfield unpacks those arguments with the help of professors from Harvard and Georgetown. Then,...

Let's Talk About a Sex Scandal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There was a brief moment 150 years ago when it looked like women might get equal pay for equal work. But they didn’t—and that set the standard for decades to come. On this episode of the Pay Check,...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men? In the US, the average woman makes 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. Launching May 9, the Pay Chec...

Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus from 2020-03-25T10:00

Harnessing Bloomberg's reporting from every continent, Bloomberg's daily Prognosis podcast brings the news, data and analysis you need for living in the time of Covid-19. In around ten minutes, we ...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check from 2018-04-26T15:12

It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men? In the US, the average woman makes 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. Launching May 9, the Pay Chec...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check from 2018-04-26T15:12

It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men? In the US, the average woman makes 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. Launching May 9, the Pay Chec...