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Eat | Rest | Move Podcast
Why America spends more on healthcare but struggles with chronic disease
What can healthcare’s past teach us about its future? On this week's podcast, Wake Forest economics professor Tina Marsh Dalton and Matt Johnson explore why we spend so much on healthcare yet struggle with chronic disease—and whether direct primary care offers a better way forward.
October 25, 2026
Yahoo
Wake Forest alumnus among 2 with North Carolina ties to receive prestigious MacArthur Fellowship
A retired primary care physician and graduate of Wake Forest University, Thomas is a renowned public artist who creates socially engaged art rooted in community. Through his work, Thomas uses history and community experiences to transform overlooked spaces into powerful public works of art.
October 23, 2026
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Cone Health plans to buy 3 Reidsville pharmacies
Cone Health has announced plans to buy three small pharmacies in Reidsville. It’s part of a growing trend of consolidation in health care. Economist Tina Marsh Dalton with Wake Forest University says deals like this can help companies cut costs. “Because the idea is that if you're going to negotiate for prices, the bigger that you are, the more clients you have, or the more enrollees, or the more patients, the more leverage you have in the negotiation," she said.
October 23, 2026
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Wake Forest alumnus among 2 with North Carolina ties to receive prestigious MacArthur Fellowship
One man with ties to the Triad and another who works in Durham were two of 20 recipients of the 2026 MacArthur Fellowship on Sept. 29. Dr. Chip Thomas and Professor Felipe De Brigard represented North Carolina well in the world of art and science, respectively. A retired primary care physician and graduate of Wake Forest University, Thomas is a renowned public artist who creates socially engaged art rooted in community.
October 23, 2026
Newsweek
JD Vance and Marco Rubio are both losing ground in 2028 race
“While no forecast is perfect, if I could only have access to one forecast, it would definitely be the one from prediction markets,” said economics professor Koleman Sturmpf. “There are trades every second. These values will go up by several times before they expire.” Strumpf pointed to the more than $700 million traded on Polymarket’s Republican nomination market and said transactions were taking place every second.
October 21, 2026
Business Insider
The latest K-beauty craze is made from dead Americans’ skin. Now it’s aiming for the US.
Each year, tens of thousands of Americans donate bodily tissue upon their deaths, generally by checking a box at a motor vehicle department or through an authorization made by a loved one. People who donate tissue "have no idea of how much money is changing hands in the course of all of this," Ana Iltis, a professor at Wake Forest and former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, told Business Insider. "With tissue donation, there's a lot of money at stake."
October 21, 2026
RotoWire
New study finds traders more accurate than pollsters
A study by Koleman Strumpf, Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy at Wake Forest, and Harry Crane, Professor of Statistics at Rutgers, found that Kalshi's 2024 election traders were 86% male and half were under 30. Their home zip codes voted 28% for President Trump. A market that priced its traders' politics would have leaned toward Kamala Harris, not Trump. Instead, 60% of the money went to Republican positions, and Kalshi priced Trump as the favorite through the final month.
October 21, 2026
Harper's Magazine
Letters, by Koleman Strumpf and Paul Rhode
"Public prediction markets have existed for centuries in the United States and elsewhere. During the heyday of New York City election markets, from around 1880 to 1940, leading newspapers reported odds on the front page in the weeks before Election Day. These markets forecast winners with remarkable accuracy," write economists Paul Rhode and Koleman Strumpf.
Strumpf and Rhodes research was also referenced in the Financial Times article, "The wisdom of prediction markets."
October 21, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Power Players 2026 Leaders to Watch: Peter Rodriguez of Wake Forest University
The 15th president of Wake Forest University, Peter Rodriguez, takes the reins of the Triad university with the largest national profile. WFU ranked as the 34th-best national university in this year's U.S. News rankings and has an endowment of $2.1 billion. Rodriguez has said that innovation campuses are a crucial part of bringing economic vitality to a region and that the iQ is something at the school that he wants to leave his mark on.
October 21, 2026
AARP
Should you leave your house to your kids?
Parents can leave a home to their children when they die or transfer an ownership interest while they’re alive by adding a child to the deed, the legal document that establishes who owns the property. These options have different tax consequences. One tax advantage for children who inherit a home upon a parent’s death is something called a step-up in basis. “The step-up in basis is something a lot of families don’t fully understand,” said Deon Strickland, a professor of finance at Wake Forest.
October 20, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Power Players revealed: Meet the first 10 members of TBJ’s Power 50 2026
Anthony Atala, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and Dr. Ebony Boulware, Wake Forest School of Medicine, are both named in this list of the Triad Business Journal "2026 Power Players."
October 19, 2026
The Columbus Dispatch
People are betting on Ohio elections. Do the odds mean anything?
The money flowing into Ohio elections isn't just for campaign ads. People are betting millions of dollars on the Nov. 3 election through prediction markets. "Elections are something that are very salient," said economist Koleman Strumpf. "We see a lot about them. People who trade in them can vote on them and see what's going on in the election. There's a lot of diversity in opinion on who people think is going to win. I view it as the perfect storm."
October 19, 2026