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Economic fact in literary fiction
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China's real estate crisis, explained
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The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT
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Never have I ever
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FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon
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Antitrust in America (classic)
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All you can eat economics
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Cutting school... by 20%
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How unions are stopped before they start
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Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation
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Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance
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Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic)
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A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay
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The flight attendants of CHAOS
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A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions
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The natural disaster economist
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A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina
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"Based on a true story"
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How to launder $600 million on the internet
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China's weakening economy in two Indicators
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Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?
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The prince of prints and his prints of Prince
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How to fight a patent pirate
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Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank
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The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines
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Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble
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Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it
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Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses
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The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans
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Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma
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A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy
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Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle
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Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit
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Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data?
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Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper
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Planet Money Paper Club
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Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker
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Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the interne...
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Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school
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The quest to save macroeconomics from itself
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Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways
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Supply, demand, extinction
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Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie
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Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police
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Twins (classic)
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The 60-day job race
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Two Indicators: The economics of innovation
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The town that changed economics
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The Spider-Man Problem (update)
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AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization
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