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Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?
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Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators
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The Subscription Trap
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We asked 188 economists. And the survey says...
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So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's??
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Can cap and trade work in the US?
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What's up with all the ads for law firms?
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How Venezuela imploded (update)
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What's THAT got to do with economics?
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Veep-onomics
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How to save 10,000 fingers
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Can money buy happiness?
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99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses
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Rate Expectations
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Is AI overrated or underrated?
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Summer camp capitalism
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Bingo! (Presidential debate edition)
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How to fix a housing shortage
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Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more
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The trade fraud detective
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Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our econo...
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The hidden world behind your new "banking" app
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Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich
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Will the Olympics break breakdancing?
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Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters
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What to do when you're in a class action
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Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar
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Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life
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What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like
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The color monopoly
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Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms
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Rooftop solar's dark side
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Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World
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How flying got so bad (or did it?)
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The two companies driving the modern economy
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Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?
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The Carriage Tax (Update)
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The Vapes of Wrath
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Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?
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What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.
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Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight
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How much national debt is too much?
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The history of light (classic)
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How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
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So you've been scammed, now what?
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The junkyard economist
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Anatomy of a layoff
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The hack that almost broke the internet
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Why Gold? (Classic)
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Zombie mortgages are coming back to life
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