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Why Things Cost So Much—and How to Fix It (With Noah Healy)
My guest today is Noah Healy, a market designer and game theorist working on a better way to organize how prices are set. We take something that sounds complex—commodity markets—and break it down into a simple question:
Why do things cost what they do? And why are prices so high?
Noah explains how current market structures create instability, inefficiency, and higher costs—and how a different approach, called Coordinated Discovery Markets (CDM), could lead to lower, more stable prices while still supporting producers. This isn't just about trading—it affects everything from food to energy…
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