Episodes (Page 15)
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Economists test whether giving cash directly to people in poverty is more effective than funding specific aid programs
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Sixteenth-century Spanish galleons traveling from Manila to Acapulco experienced a mysterious 20% shipwrecking rate
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Annual year-end follow-up checking in on previous stories including a Hollywood strike captain's last job attempt
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Planet Money and Indicator hosts debate which economic indicators best captured 2023: soft landing, consumer sentiment, or housing market
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Episode explores the hidden economics behind Christmas tree supply, demand, and pricing through auction and retail stories
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Argentina's currency crisis has pushed inflation above 160% annually as the peso collapsed from 20-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against the dollar
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Recent research suggests full-time remote work may be less productive than previously thought, contradicting earlier pandemic-era assumptions
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Economics Job Market Rumors website serves as anonymous forum for discussions about academia but hosts toxic, racist, and sexist posts
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1990s advertisements created memorable jingles and slogans that defined an era of brand marketing strategy
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U.S. Treasury market represents America's economic superpower, allowing the government to borrow cheaply for nearly any purpose
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Doctors and hospitals continue using pagers despite cell phones rendering them obsolete decades ago
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First indicator examines how economic changes transformed a UK iconic affordable food staple into a luxury item
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Consumer sentiment remains surprisingly low despite strong economic fundamentals like low unemployment and inflation
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Oregon faces marijuana oversupply crisis with farmers producing 8.8 million pounds against only 4 million residents
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Holiday turkey demand increases 750% around Thanksgiving, yet whole turkey prices actually fall about 20% during this period
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Contemporary bestselling novelists Min Jin Lee, Emily St. John Mandel, and Hernan Diaz weave economics and finance into literary fiction
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China's real estate sector fueled decades of extraordinary economic growth but recently stalled, raising global economic concerns
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Authors including Douglas Preston and George R.R. Martin sue OpenAI for allegedly using their copyrighted novels to train ChatGPT
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Two economists step outside armchair theorizing to experience economic phenomena they've studied but never personally encountered
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FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose 2017 law school article 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox' went viral in policy circles, now enforces antitrust as regulator