Notable Guests
CP
Consumer Spending Puzzle
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DR
Decoder Ring
1x
LK
Life Kit
1x
MM
Mike The Mover
1x
SA
Summer School Antarctica
1x
TS
The Consumer Sentiment
1x
TP
The Furniture Police
1x
Recent Episodes
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Explores Antarctica's unique status as a continent owned by no nation.
Summer School Antarctica
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Planet Money pitches their game 'Sell Me a Sasquatch' to big box retailers.
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Exploring South Korea's economic transformation since WWII.
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Wall Street firms profit from life insurance policies through a secondary market.
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Argentina's economic experts navigate inflation and flexibility.
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Older workers are delaying retirement, impacting younger generations' career advancement.
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Explores a Caribbean island's communal property system where land is claimed freely.
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Squishy, slimy, fidgety toys are reshaping toy manufacturing.
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Norway's "luxury of restraint" avoided the resource curse after oil discovery.
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Kenya's famous town uses radical economic experiments to answer global questions.
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Cyclospora outbreak linked to bagged lettuce highlights food safety challenges.
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Investigates the unsolved shooting death of Antonio Mays Jr. in Seattle's CHOP.
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Examining if World Cup popularity can boost Major League Soccer in the U.S.
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The episode examines China's rapid economic growth and its consequences.
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The explosion of the secondhand luxury goods market is examined.
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Embark on a global journey seeking the best economic ideas.
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Game theory applied to winning penalty shootouts.
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Trump administration's plan to lower college costs.
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General Magic's 90s smartphone concept is examined.
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This episode explores the history of prediction markets.