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Federal Court Blocks Challenge To Social Cost Of Carbon
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Who Sets The Price Of Oil? Wall Street Speculators?
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How The Idea Of Free Trade As A Way To World Peace Gained Traction
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Why The Fed Keeps A Close Eye On Consumer Prices
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2008 Bank Bailout Chief Has A Plan To Prevent The Need For Another One
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The House Always Wins. Then He Came Along
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An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: Bald Eagles Prey On Farmer's Chickens
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Episode 761: The Bank War
Banks and governments have been fighting each other for hundreds of years, but never more dramatically than during the showdown between President Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, the president of...
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Episode 762: The Fine Print
On today's show: stories about what happens when you actually read the fine print.The fine print sends a Midwestern family on a two-thousand-mile road trip to open dozens of bank accounts.It leads to a...
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Episode 381: When Business Loves Regulation
Note: Today's show originally ran in June 2012.A few years ago, Jestina Clayton started a hair braiding business in her home in Centerville, Utah. The business let her stay home with her kids, and in...
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Episode 606: Spreadsheets!
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.Spreadsheets used to be actual sheets of paper. Sometimes, a bunch of sheets of paper taped together.Any calculation made on a spreadsheet was done by hand,...
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Episode 772: Small Change
Here is a thing we hear approximately every day: The world is changing faster than ever before. Robert Gordon doesn't buy it.He's an economist who has spent decades studying technological change and...
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Episode 774: Unspeakable Trademark
Warning: This episode has explicit language, for unavoidable and soon-to-be obvious reasons. Growing up in California, Simon Tam had some tough moments. He was Chinese-American, and in middle school,...
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Episode 599: The Invisible Wall
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015. Hernando de Soto's parents always talked about Peru as he was growing up. His family had moved to Switzerland after a coup. They were kicked out of the...
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Episode 780: On Second Thought
It's hard to change your mind: You have to confront the limits of your intellect and concede that your adversaries have a point. It's awkward and embarrassing.We think it's brave to change your view....
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Episode 781: The Money Fixers
When your life savings gets torched in a house fire or put through a shredder, there is a roomful of people who may be able to help: a team of specialists with the legal authority and technical skills...
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Episode 586: How Stuff Gets Cheaper
Note: This episode originally ran in 2014.We tend to get obsessed with things that get more expensive over time — college tuition, say, or health care. But lots of things have actually gotten cheaper...
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Episode 782: Budget Time
On today's show, we are going to explain every dollar the federal government spent last year — nearly $4 trillion — in 10 minutes.And to get a real feel for how the money is divided up, we're going to...
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Episode 594: Board Games
Note: This episode originally ran in 2014. Another version was also part of This American Life's Episode 543: Wake Up Now.CEO pay comes up a lot in the news. The stories often include someone...
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Episode 629: Buy Low, Sell Prime
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.Sam Cohen's business works like this: He walks into a big retail store and buys a bunch of stuff. Then he sells it on Amazon for more. It's straightforward and...
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Episode 786: Rest of the Story 2017, Vol. 1
Have you noticed? Something strange has happened to the passage of time. Sometimes it feels like Friday... but it's still Tuesday afternoon. We've felt it at Planet Money, too.At the end of every year,...
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Episode 787: Google Is Big. Is That Bad?
Earlier this summer, a European official walked into a roomful of reporters and answered a question that some people have been asking for a long time now:Is Google abusing its power over the...
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The Producer Who Created 'Beat Kits' Behind Today's Pop Music
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Episode 671: An Insider Trader Tells All
Note: This episode contains explicit language.In that photo up there, the man on the right is handing an envelope of cash to the man on the left, in exchange for secret information. It is a photo of...
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Episode 696: Class Action
Class actions have been around for centuries. But the modern version was created in the 1960s — in part by a young lawyer working on a manual typewriter in the back seat of a car. At the time, class...
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Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded
Note: This episode originally ran in 2016.This year, 2018, publicly traded corporations had to start reporting the ratio between CEO pay and median workers' wages. Some of the numbers are eye-popping....
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Episode 534: The History of Light (Nobel Edition)
This episode is a rerun. It originally ran in 2014. We're playing it again because Bill Nordhaus shared the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science today! We based this episode on one of his...
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Gross Dank Product
Canada just became the largest country to legalize marijuana so far.Back in January, on The Indicator, Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein spoke with James Tebrake, the director general of Statistics...
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Episode 453: What Causes What?
This episode originally ran in April 2013.What causes what? The human brain is programmed to answer this question constantly, and using a very basic method. This is how we survive. What made that...
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Episode 539: What's A Penny Worth?
This show originally ran in 2014. A penny is a strange thing. It is money, but it's just about worthless. It's near impossible to buy something with just one penny. (Trust us. We tried.) And yet, the...
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Episode 887: You Asked For It, Yet Again
What do silver dollars, Venmo, and Brexit have in common? They're all on the minds of our listeners.Today on the show, we take listener questions, and hunt for answers. We try to figure out how Venmo...
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Episode 688: Brilliant Vs. Boring
Note: This episode originally ran in 2016.In 2006, Warren Buffett bet a million dollars that over ten years, his investment in the most brainless, boring fund would do better than the investment of...
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Episode 891: Who Won The Bet Over Bitcoin?
In 2014, we brought two people together to make a bet over the future of bitcoin.Ben Horowitz, a venture capitalist whose firm had already invested millions of dollars in cryptocurrency companies,...
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Antitrust 2: The Paradox
This is the second episode in our series on the history of competition, big business and antitrust law in America. Quick recap:A little more than a hundred years ago, the Supreme Court broke up the...
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Antitrust 3: Big Tech
This is the third episode in our series on antitrust law in America. Our first episode told the story of Ida Tarbell and how her reporting on John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil changed antitrust law...
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Episode 899: Mexico Fights The Fuel Pirates
A Warning: This episode contains audio from a disturbing scene of a pipeline explosion.Mexico's national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos—Pemex—is one of the largest oil companies in the world, and its...
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Episode 903: A New Way To Pay For College
Lauren Neuwirth was a sophomore at Purdue University when she ran out of money to pay for college. She was considering joining the Army to get her tuition covered. But then someone at the financial aid...
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For Some Students, There's A New Way To Pay For College
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Episode 644: How Much Does This Cow Weigh?
This episode originally ran in 2015.About one hundred years ago, a scientist and statistician named Francis Galston came upon an opportunity to test how well regular people were at answering a...
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Episode 908: I Am Not A Robot
If you've ever signed up for anything online, you've probably taken a CAPTCHA test. Maybe you deciphered some scrambled letters and numbers. Maybe you clicked on a bunch of pictures of stop signs. Or...
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Google Replaces CAPTCHA With reCAPTCHA, A More Effective Way To Decide Who Is...
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What Selling Homes Online Says About Changes In The Global Economy
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Episode 665: The Free Food Market
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.When Susannah Morgan was running a food bank in Alaska, she always needed produce. Items like fresh oranges or potatoes. But her food bank didn't get much....
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How The Vision Fund Has Transformed Silicon Valley And Startups
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Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Blackbeard's Ship, State And Property Rights
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Should We Kill The $100 Bill?
Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here.Today's newsletter is adapted from Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, a new book by Planet Money co-host...
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Congressional Committee Has Been Reviewing Trump Tax Refund For 9 Years
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How Could A Biden Administration Change Banks?
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'Planet Money': The $100 Million Deli
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