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What's a moneyline bet anyway?
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Why Netflix spent billions for WWE
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The water mystery unfolding in the western U.S.
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President Jimmy Carter's economic legacy
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Why to look twice when your portfolio is doing well
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The curious rise of novelty popcorn buckets (Encore)
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Invest like a Congress member (Encore)
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Half a billion people need reading glasses. Why can't they get them? (Encore)
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How video games become more accessible (Encore)
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How TV holiday rom-coms got so successful (Encore)
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What indicators will 2025 bring?
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Help us pick the indicator of the year!
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Can empty-nesters boost housing affordability?
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Trump's contradictory trade policies
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Do job references matter?
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There are a lot of billionaires in Trump's coming administration
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Why the US economy is still the envy of the world
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A supermarket beef, a quantum leap, and Christmas trees for cheap
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An economist's role in the fall of Syria's government
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The brewing recovery in Western North Carolina
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The Tuna Bonds Scandal and the fishy business of hidden debt
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How influence actually works
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Men without college degrees aren't doing well
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What a second Trump term could mean for SpaceX
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What a difference a one-day strike makes
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Boeing's biggest blunder? Financial engineering.
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How Trump's tariffs plan might work
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What's in your wallet? Ask the new Treasury Secretary
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Trump's plans for the housing market
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How big is the US housing shortage?
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The most expensive banana in the world and other indicators
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Bond vigilantes. Who they are, what they want, and how you'll know they're coming
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How Magic Johnson's Starbucks created new neighborhood businesses
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How to shop during a crisis
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A fraught climate change conference, how are US home builders doing, and more
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The Economics of Everyday Things: Pizza (Box) Time!
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23andMe's financial troubles, Paul vs. Tyson and Bitcoin to the moon
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Who's powering nuclear energy's comeback?
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Why the government's flood insurance program is underwater
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Why this former banking regulator is writing kids books
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What's a weather forecast worth?
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Stocks jump, the temperamental peso, and other election aftermath indicators
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The story behind Cuba's economic dysfunction
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America's economy is the envy of the world. Will it stay that way?
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Why Midwest crop farmers are having a logistics problem
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Why the US government is buying more apples than ever before
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Cool, cool, cooling jobs
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The U.S. once banned Chinese immigrants — and it paid an economic price
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What's missing in the immigration debate
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What happens when Social Security runs out of money?
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What looks like a bond and acts like a bond but isn't a bond?
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An economist answers your questions on love
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Trying to fix the dating app backlash
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How American heiresses became Dollar Princesses
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Why the publishing industry is hot (and bothered) for romance
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It's Love Week! How the TV holiday rom-com got so successful
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Reversing shrinkflation (via potato chips) and other indicators
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Rebranding 'the world's most dangerous private army'
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Can the yield curve still predict recessions?
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Why are some nations richer?
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The cost of living, lead pipe removal, and a more expensive Mega Millions
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The trouble with water discounts
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Half a billion people need reading glasses. Why can't they get them?
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The year the music festival died
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Why the name Taft-Hartley got airplay during the dockworkers' brief strike
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Does unemployment whiplash mean recession?
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Champagne. Neapolitan pizza. Now döner kebabs?
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Are we about to lose TikTok? Like actually tho?
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Is an American sovereign wealth fund such a bad idea?
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Mail bag! Grad jobs, simplified branding and central bank independence
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America's small GDP bump, China's big stimulus dispersal, and a Monkey King
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What does the next era of Social Security look like?
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Are pharmacy benefit managers driving up drug prices? (Update)
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How to pass on a global media empire
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Could you live without GPS? It's OK, the economy can't, either
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The Fed cut rates ... now what? (featuring: Sasquatch)
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What are Harris' economic plans?
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What are Trump's economic plans?
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Behind the Tiny Desk and other listener questions
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Bad economics, smart politics
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The return of Fyre Festival and other indicators
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The DOJ's case against Apple
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Overtourism ho! The Barcelona cruise dilemma
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I will PAY YOU to take my natural gas
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How Medicare fraud became Miami's vice
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Why aren't more people taking on the trades?
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How Pitbull got his name on a college football stadium
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How Japan is trying to solve the problem of shrinking villages
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Want to get ahead in youth sports? Try staying back a year.
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Let's party like it's NVIDIA earnings report day!
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The Olympian to influencer pipeline
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How mortgage interest rates work (and why they're currently out of whack)
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How China became solar royalty
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A food fight over free school lunch
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How much would you do this job for? And other indicators
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Biden's beef with bad customer service
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What is the deal with car rentals?
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So, how's this No Tax On Tips thing gonna go?
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Is endless vacation a scam?
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Mortgage applications, China's housing and ... Carrie Bradshaw?
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Why big banks aren't interested in your savings account
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Should presidents have more of a say in interest rates?
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The Denver basic income experiment
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Beach reads with a side of economics
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Google's monopoly, gold medals and gasping markets
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You can't spell Olympics without IP
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Is the UK open for business?
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The debate at the heart of new electricity transmission
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Markets have a bad case of the Mondays
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Getting more men into so-called pink-collar jobs
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Why the Olympics cost so much
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Are both rents AND interest rates too dang high?
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Test your knowledge of NVIDIA, ChatGPT and...Peppa Pig?
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How insurance is affecting the cost of childcare
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Peacock, potassium and other Paris Olympics Indicators
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Is AI overrated?
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Is AI underrated?
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The curious rise of novelty popcorn buckets
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Three Kamala Harris Indicators
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Bankruptcy, basketball, and bringing the dollar down
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Goodbye, Chevron. Hello, lawsuits!
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The conservative roots behind the Chevron doctrine
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Why the EU can regulate big tech faster
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China's luxury liquor indicator
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Greece allows a 6-day work week and other indicators
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An asylum seeker's long road to a work permit
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How much do presidents ACTUALLY influence the economy?
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What military brats tell us about social mobility
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The young trolls of Wall Street are growing up
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One of the hottest jobs in AI right now: 'types-question guy'
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The game theory that led to nuclear standoffs
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The economic implications of Europe's jolt right
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How the end of Roe is reshaping the medical workforce
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Indicators of the Week: Debate Edition
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Do polluters pay, or do they get paid?
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What's going to happen to the Trump tax cuts?
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Tracking the underground bike theft economy
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The tower of NVIDIA
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Boeing's woes, Bilt jilts, and the Indicator's stock rally
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A captive market: The high price of prison phone calls
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Invest like a Congress member
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Spud spat
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Oil gluts, Russian bucks, and Starbucks
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Is Google search getting worse?
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Has the Fed lost the dot plot?
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Is the 'border crisis' actually a 'labor market crisis?'
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Is chicken getting cheap? And other questions
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Ghost jobs
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Why California's high speed rail was always going to blow out
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Why the U.S. helps pay for Israel's military
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Common economic myths, debunked
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Unveiling our mascot's new name and merch!
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The cutest indicator in the world
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Indicator Quiz: May Edition
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Using anecdotes to predict recessions
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Can dental therapists fill the gap in oral care?
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How Red Lobster got cooked and other indicators
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Why tariffs are SO back
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How Fortnite brought Google to its knees
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AI Tupac and the murky legality of digital necromancy
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Building generational wealth in rural America
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Trade wars and talent shortages
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How the Dominican Republic became Latin America's economic superstar
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The highs and lows of US rents
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The "Winner Take All" problem
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Is 'government crypto' a good idea?
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A new gold rush and other indicators
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Iceberg ahead for Social Security
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Why Venezuela is no longer in freefall
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Hazard maps: The curse of knowledge
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How Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty
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Not too hot, not too cold: a 'Goldilocks' jobs report
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Protesters want schools to divest from Israel. How would that work?
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What a cabinet maker can teach us about interest rates
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Is the federal debt REALLY that bad?
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Taxing the final frontier
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Video Game Industry Week: The Final Level
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Work. Crunch. Repeat: Why gaming demands so much of its employees
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The boom and bust of esports
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Designing for disability: how video games become more accessible
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Forever games: the economics of the live service model
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Ticketmaster's dominance, Caitlin Clark's paycheck, and other indicators
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Inside the epic fight over new banking regulations
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Profiting off greater risk: the reinsurance game
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What is a 'freedom economy'?
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Why is insurance so expensive right now? And more listener questions
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What Subway's foot-long cookie says about inflation
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The IRS wants to do your taxes for free. Will it last?
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Why the EU is investigating China's wind turbines
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What do the royals do all day, anyway?
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Why companies spin off
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Do I need a four-year degree?
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How the 'shadow fleet' helps Russia skirt sanctions
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Can an old law bring down grocery prices?
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The Indicator Quiz: Labor Edition
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Can breaking the law be good for business?
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Three ways consumers are feeling the pinch
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Should schools be paying their college athletes?
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Help Wanted at Boeing
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Name our mascot. No, really.
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The interest-ing world of interest rates
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How ski resorts are (economically) adjusting to climate change
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When does youth employment become child labor?
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Tick tock for TikTok?
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Can Europe fund its defense ambitions?
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Biden's economic pitch for a second term
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How are moving companies faring with high mortgage rates?
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Are data breaches putting patients at risk?
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What's behind Bitcoin's bullrun?
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Is the financial media making us miserable about the economy?
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Why wind techs are so in demand
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How to get Russia to pay Ukraine
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What would it take to fix retirement?
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How the SEC's new rule could reveal more about a company's emissions
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The growing industry of green burials
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Wendy's pricing mind trick and other indicators of the week
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Why Israel uses diaspora bonds
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What the data reveal about U.S. labor unrest
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How to make an ad memorable
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Reddit's public Wall Street bet
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An oil boom, a property slump and dental deflation
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A Supreme Court case that could reshape social media
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Why Capital One wants Discover
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Could fake horns end illegal rhino poaching?
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Chocolate, Lyft's typo and India's election bonds
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Why banks are fighting changes to an anti-redlining program
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How Egypt's military is dragging down its economy
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How's your defense industry knowledge?
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What's really happening with the Evergrande liquidation
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A Swiftie Super Bowl, a stumbling bank, and other indicators
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Why Saudi Arabia is building a new city in the desert
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Is Wall Street's hottest trend finally over?
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Did pandemic business support work?
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Could cash payments ease recessions?
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How local government is propping up the U.S. labor market
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Why the FTC is cracking down on location data brokers
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How to transform a war economy for peacetime
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Can Just-In-Time handle a new era of war?
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Are we overpaying for military equipment?
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Tumbling Chinese stocks and rapid Chipotle hiring
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How niche brands got into your local supermarket
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A manifesto for feeding 8 billion people
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Are we counting jobs right? We answer your listener questions
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The tensions behind the sale of U.S. Steel
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Walmart scams, expensive recycling, and overdraft fees
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Five tips for understanding political polls this election season
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The surprising leader in EVs
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How the world economy could react to escalation in the Middle East
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Offloading EVs, vacating offices and reaping windfalls
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The lawsuit that could shake up the rental market
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Why oil in Guyana could be a curse
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Ad targeting gets into your medical file
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Five reasons why Americans and economists can't agree on the economy
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Higher wages, fewer temp workers and indicators of the year results
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WTF is a bitcoin ETF?
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What a pot of gumbo can teach us about disinflation
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Red Sea tensions spell trouble for global supply chains
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Chasing the American Dream at Outback Steakhouse (Classic)
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'Let's Get It On' ... in court (Update)
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A lesson in Barbie labor economics (Classic)
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The echo of the bison (Classic)
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Predicting next year's economic storylines
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The 'Yellowstone' effect on Montana
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How economics can help you stick to your New Year's resolution
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Coyote vs. Warner Bros. Discovery
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Would-be weed merchants hit a 'grass ceiling'
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The Indicator of the Year
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What women want (to invest in)
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The 'physics' behind potential interest rate cuts
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Are the products in your shopping cart real?
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A countdown to climate action
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AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs
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The wheel's many reinventions
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What can we learn from the year's most popular econ terms?
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Americans don't like higher prices but they LOVE buying new things
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Who can and cannot get weight-loss drugs
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Endless shrimp and other indicators
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Could SCOTUS outlaw wealth taxes?
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Putting the 80/20 rule to the test
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Oil prices and the Israel-Hamas war
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Texas' new power grid problem
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A salary to be grateful for, and other Thanksgiving indicators
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How "dark defaults" could cost you
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The messy human drama behind OpenAI
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Prices fall, unemployment rises and Boomers have all the houses
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How do cheap cell phone plans make money? And other questions
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The evidence on school vouchers that'll please nobody
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Xi and him
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When a staple becomes a luxury
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Actors back. Pandas gone. WeBankrupt.
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A radical plan to fix Argentina's inflation
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Bond. World's oldest living bond.
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A bad economy can be good for your health
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The spectacle of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial
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Why everyone in the labor market is being picky
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How the South is trying to win the EV race
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Trying to solve the mystery of big bond yields
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Are real estate agent fees a racket?
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A finance fright fest
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Europe vs. US economies... and a dime heist
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