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Sep 09, 2024
Apple unveiled new models of its iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch — most of which will be available in stores later this month.
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Sep 09, 2024
Rupert Murdoch's attorneys are in court in Nevada seeking to change the terms of his irrevocable trust to give full control of the family's media empire to his elder son Lachlan.
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Sep 09, 2024
In 2019, Philip Esformes went on trial for one of the biggest Medicare fraud cases in history. His longtime family rabbi said Philip Esformes was an upstanding citizen ... when he lived in Chicago.
Malcolm Gladwell was fascinated by this case and the prospect of a city changing a man. He covers this in his forthcoming book Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering.
Today on the show: How Miami became known as the capital of Medicare fraud. We learn what went wrong in South Florida and what it says about how places may change our behavior.
Related Episodes:
Book drama, NVIDIA hype, and private equity Football
How Pitbull got his name on a college football stadium
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Sep 09, 2024
Many shoppers blame stores and manufacturers for supermarket inflation. But what do the companies' finances tell us?
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Sep 09, 2024
A new report from a financial services company finds that only one-third of millionaires consider themselves to be wealthy.
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Sep 08, 2024
The union's members still need to vote on Boeing's proposal and decide whether to authorize a strike if the offer is rejected. If that's the case, a walkout could begin as soon as Friday.
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Sep 07, 2024
As racial justice protests grew following the killing of George Floyd, many companies publicly embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring policies. Now many are backing away from those policies.
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Sep 07, 2024
Stellantis is recalling nearly 1.5 million Ram pickup trucks worldwide to fix a software problem that can disable the electronic stability control system.
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Sep 06, 2024
Summer camp is a classic rite of passage in the U.S. It's a place of self-discovery, where kids come to make new friends and take on new challenges. But what if it were ALSO a place where children came to learn how to survive in a free market economy?
That's part of the idea behind a summer camp at JA BizTown, in Portland, Oregon. Kids at the camp run tiny fake businesses in a tiny fake town. There are retail stores and restaurants, insurance companies and power utilities. As camp begins, a gaggle of child CEOs take out business loans from their peers in the tiny fake banking industry - and they spend the day racing to run their businesses profitably enough to get out of debt before pickup time.
On today's show, Planet Money takes a romp through capitalism summer camp. Will the children of BizTown be able to make ends meet and pay back their loans to the banks? Or will a string of defaults send this dollhouse economy into financial collapse? It's Shark Tank meets Lord of the Flies.
This episode was hosted by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and Sally Helm. It was produced by James Sneed, and edited by Jess Jiang. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Gilly Moon. Planet Money's executive producer is Alex Goldmark.
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Sep 06, 2024
British regulators are looking into how Ticketmaster uses "dynamic pricing" to hike prices in line with demand. A similar controversy prompted a federal lawsuit against the company in the U.S.
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Sep 06, 2024
One school in Florida found a unique way to attract money and good marketing. It sold the naming rights of its stadium to famous musician Pitbull.
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Sep 06, 2024
There is expected to be a lot of demand for manufacturing jobs in the coming decade, but many of those positions will be left unfilled. So Darnell Epps set out to close that gap by connecting employers with workers and showing potential workers what's appealing about these jobs. Today, we dig into Darnell Epps journey through both law school and trade school.
Related episodes:
One of the hottest jobs in AI right now: 'types-question guy' (Apple / Spotify)
Why it's so hard to mass produce houses in factories (Apple / Spotify)
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Sep 06, 2024
There was both good news — and bad news — in the latest jobs report, providing an unclear picture as the Federal Reserve weighs how much to cut interest rates.
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Sep 06, 2024
The restaurant chain announced Thursday that it received approval for its Chapter 11 plan, offering a glimmer of good news for the business, which has faced a series of struggles
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Sep 06, 2024
Check your receipt. Grow your own veggies. Ask about senior discounts. NPR readers share their top tips on cutting costs at the grocery store.
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Sep 06, 2024
NPR confirmed the names of the two Trump staffers involved in the Arlington cemetery scuffle. And, the father of the Georgia school shooting suspect arrested.
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Sep 06, 2024
President Biden says he will block the takeover of U.S. Steel by Japanese company Nippon. Would this help or hurt manufacturing jobs? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with economist Matthew Slaughter.
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Sep 06, 2024
Putting tariffs on Chinese goods has become a go-to strategy for both Republicans and Democrats. Making sure those tariffs are enforced is harder than it looks.
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Sep 05, 2024
The tech billionaire breaks his silence more than a week after being indicted by French authorities. He faces wide-ranging charges including spreading child abuse images and drug trafficking.
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Sep 05, 2024
Biden, Harris and former President Trump all oppose Nippon Steel's $14 billion purchase of U.S. Steel. Company executives say thousand of union jobs could be in jeopardy if the sale falls through.
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Sep 05, 2024
Recently, singer/rapper/entrepreneur Pitbull agreed to pay $6 million to Florida International University for the naming rights to its football stadium ... an unusual move for both parties: a musician paying for their name on a stadium, and for a college to name their stadium after a musician.
How does this move benefit the college? How does this move benefit Mr. Worldwide?
In today's episode, what Pitbull and FIU's deal tell us about the fast-changing economics of college sports.
Related Episodes:
The monetization of college sports
The Olympian to influencer pipeline
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Sep 05, 2024
The goal is to save money, cut back on overconsumption and be more mindful of wasteful and unsustainable shopping habits. This guide can help you start a challenge of your own.
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Sep 05, 2024
Members of the Democratic Women's Caucus are urging the FDA to address concerns about the safety and regulation of tampons after a study found heavy metals, including lead, in many popular products.
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Sep 05, 2024
Details in the indictment match Nashville-based Tenet Media, which offered lucrative paychecks to prominent right-wing influencers. The influencers say they were deceived.
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Sep 04, 2024
Campaigns can be a jargony slog. And this year, we are seeing a lot of economic terms being thrown around, many of which... aren't entirely straightforward.
In this episode, we try to make the mess of words that accompany a presidential campaign into something a little less exhausting: A game of bingo.
Follow along as we dig into five terms that we expect to hear in the upcoming presidential debate, along with some others we hope to hear.
You can play along, too, at npr.org/bingo. Play online or print cards to play with friends on debate night!
This episode was hosted by Nick Fountain and Erika Beras. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler with help from Emma Peaslee. It was edited by Meg Cramer. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Cena Loffredo. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
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Sep 04, 2024
The team at Planet Money turned the economics terms being tossed out during the 2024 presidential campaign into a game of Economic Lingo Bingo!
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Sep 04, 2024
Job openings have fallen to their lowest level in more than three and a half years. That's one factor the Federal Reserve will consider when deciding how much to cut interest rates later this month.
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Sep 04, 2024
The once-thriving Japanese hamlet of Nanmoku was known for its silk and timber industries. Today, it is the country's most aged village, with two-thirds of residents over age 65. On today's show, how the Japanese government is trying to address rural depopulation and attract younger residents to villages like Nanmoku.
Related listening:
Japan had a vibrant economy. Then it fell into a slump for 30 years (Apple / Spotify)
Japan's ninja shortage
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Sep 04, 2024
Child care continues to vex working parents. In Wisconsin, the CEO of the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry has been trying — and struggling — to make a difference.
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Sep 03, 2024
Reclassing, when a student repeats an academic year by choice, is a popular way for kids trying to land a spot in a top college athletics program. But it can also come with some heavy costs. Today on the show, we explore the reclassing phenomenon and pressures kids and their parents face in a competitive environment for young athletes.
Related episodes:
Should schools be paying their college athletes? (Apple / Spotify)
The monetization of college sports (Apple / Spotify)
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Sep 03, 2024
Economists used AI to analyze millions of yearbook photos. They discovered ties are no longer cool…and also a new frontier for economic analysis.
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Sep 02, 2024
Over the last decade, more companies have adopted endless leave policies that allow employees to take as much vacation time as they want.
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Sep 02, 2024
Some people yearn to travel by both land and sea. Now, a man in the UK has engineered a single human-powered device that can do the job of both. Enter the Pedal Paddle.
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Sep 01, 2024
In a move that might allow them to sell drugs directly to patients, some drugmakers are getting into the telehealth business.
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Sep 01, 2024
Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.
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Sep 01, 2024
It's been 15 years since Disney bought Marvel Entertainment, ushering in a Hollywood era dominated by superheroes. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and author Joanna Robinson discuss the deal and its impact.
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Aug 31, 2024
This weekend caps a record-breaking season for travel, and those hitting the road will find lower gas prices than they did last year.
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Aug 31, 2024
EVs are slowly catching on with motorists in the United States, but finding a place to charge is tough in big cities — even though they have the funding to install more public chargers.
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Aug 30, 2024
When Cody Fischer decided to get into real estate development, he had a vision. He wanted to build affordable, energy efficient apartments in Minneapolis, not far from where he grew up.
His vision was well-timed because, in 2019, Minneapolis's city council passed one of the most ambitious housing plans in the nation. One aim of that plan was to alleviate the city's housing shortage by encouraging developers like Cody to build, build, build.
But when Cody tried to build, he ran into problems. The kinds of problems that arise all over the country when cities confront a short supply of housing, and try to build their way out.
Today on the show, NIMBYism, YIMBYism and why it's so hard to fix the housing shortage. Told through the story of two apartment buildings in Minneapolis.
This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Kenny Malone. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and Sofia Shchukina, and edited by Molly Messick. It was engineered by James Willets and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
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Aug 30, 2024
On this Indicators of the Week, we take you to a Manhattan bar to watch NVIDIA's latest earnings reports. Plus, how publishers are trying to keep their books in Florida school libraries and what private equity is doing in Football.
Related episodes:
The tower of NVIDIA (Apple / Spotify)
What do private equity firms actually do?
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Aug 30, 2024
The chip company's up-and-down week reflects Wall Street's attempts to predict the future of artificial intelligence, and how quickly that future will get here.
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Aug 30, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country.
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Aug 30, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country.
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Aug 30, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country.
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Aug 30, 2024
California Assembly Bill 2602 would regulate the use of generative AI for performers - not only those on-screen in films, TV and streaming series but also audiobooks and video games.
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Aug 30, 2024
The editors had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to publish and reproduce seditious publications. They face up to two years in prison and a fine. They were given bail pending sentencing on Sept. 26.
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Aug 30, 2024
It costs more than $20 billion a year to feed kids in schools. Some 70% of lunches were served free or reduced but there's a political divide on whether all school lunches should be free.
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Aug 29, 2024
While the 2024 Paris Olympics are over for some athletes, many competitors are still seeking to capitalize on their fame back on their college campuses. Thanks to the NCAA's 2021 rule changes for Name, Image and Likeness, college athletes are now able to leverage their stardom to maximize their earning potential.
Today on the show, we talk to University of Michigan men's gymnastics star and Olympic medalist Frederick Richard about how he's playing the business game for the long term.
Related episodes:
Why the Olympics cost so much (Apple / Spotify)
You can't spell Olympics without IP (Apple / Spotify)
The monetization of college sports (Apple / Spotify)
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Aug 29, 2024
A roundup of eight useful tips from Life Kit's August episodes. This month's edition includes a sweet goodbye ritual for children and advice on how to save more money at the grocery store.
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Aug 29, 2024
Michael Lacey, a founder of the classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $3 million in a money laundering case in a case involving allegations of sex trafficking.
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Aug 28, 2024
The chip company Nvidia is powering the artificial intelligence boom, and its stock has become the darling of Wall Street. Investors were closely watching whether it would live up to the hype.
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Aug 28, 2024
The chip company Nvidia is powering the artificial intelligence boom, and its stock has become the darling of Wall Street. Investors were closely watching whether it would live up to the hype.
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Aug 28, 2024
Take the 2024 Planet Money Summer School Quiz here to earn your personalized diploma!
Find all the episodes from this season of Summer School here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School.
We are assembled here on the lawn of Planet Money University for the greatest graduation in history - because it features the greatest economic minds in history. We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and some surprising guests as they teach us a little bit more economics, and offer a lot of life advice.
But first, we have to wrap up our (somewhat) complete economic history of the world. We'll catch up on the last fifty years or so of human achievement and ask ourselves, has economics made life better for us all?
This series is hosted by Robert Smith and produced by Audrey Dilling. Our project manager is Devin Mellor. This episode was edited by Planet Money Executive Producer Alex Goldmark and fact-checked by Sofia Shchukina.
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Always free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts.
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Aug 28, 2024
Even with falling interest rates in recent weeks, mortgage rates are still higher than you'd expect.
Mortgage interest rates are usually a little less than two percentage points higher than what you would get on a 10-year Treasury bond. But for the last couple of years that difference has been noticeably higher: 2.6% at the moment. New borrowers have been paying potentially thousands of dollars extra each year on their mortgages.
Today on the show, how mortgage interest rates work and why they're currently out of whack ... with new borrowers footing the bill.
Related Episodes:
Are both rents AND interest rates too dang high?
How mortgage rates get made
The rat under the Fed's hat
AP Macro gets a makeover
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Aug 28, 2024
An elected official in Las Vegas blamed his 2022 primary defeat on negative stories in the local newspaper. Now a jury has found him guilty of murdering the journalist who wrote them.
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Aug 28, 2024
The Russian-born tech billionaire was arrested by French authorities on Saturday. Prosecutors in Paris had been questioning him in connection with an investigation focused on drug trafficking
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Aug 28, 2024
The Russian-born tech billionaire was arrested by French authorities on Saturday. Prosecutors in Paris had been questioning him in connection with an investigation focused on drug trafficking
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Aug 28, 2024
President Biden and former President Donald Trump have both embraced tariffs on foreign imports. We asked economist Sanjay Patnaik of the nonpartisan Brookings Institution what tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other products mean for the U.S.
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Aug 28, 2024
President Biden and former President Donald Trump have both embraced tariffs on foreign imports. We asked economist Sanjay Patnaik of the nonpartisan Brookings Institution what tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other products mean for the U.S.
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Aug 28, 2024
The chip company Nvidia is the darling of the AI boom. Can its closely-watched earnings live up to the hype?
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Aug 28, 2024
The chip company Nvidia is the darling of the AI boom. Can its closely-watched earnings live up to the hype?
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Aug 27, 2024
Time to show your economic history skills based on what we've covered in Planet Money Summer School 2024: An Incomplete Economic History of the World. Make it through the quiz, and receive a — and we cannot stress this enough — totally fake (yet well-earned) diploma.
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Aug 27, 2024
Boeing's Starliner will return to Earth as soon as next week — but the crew will stay in space into next year. It's another blow for Boeing, and could have major implications for its space business.
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Aug 27, 2024
Leonard Riggio transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country's most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.
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Aug 27, 2024
When Shi Zhengrong started making solar panels at the turn of the century, there was basically no solar industry in China. But in the decades that followed, the nation started heavily investing in renewables. Today, we dig into how China became a leader in solar power while following the story of one man: the Sun King.
Related episodes:
Rooftop solar's dark side (Apple / Spotify)
The debate at the heart of new electricity transmission (Apple / Spotify)
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Aug 27, 2024
Both former President Trump and Vice President Harris have called for the elimination of taxes on tips. The idea is popular, but there are economic consequences.
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Aug 27, 2024
Kroger and Albertsons say the merger of the supermarkets could help with grocery prices. And, what is EEE? A fatal mosquito-borne disease that was detected in Massachusetts.
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Aug 27, 2024
President Biden and former President Donald Trump have both embraced tariffs on foreign imports. WE explore when tariffs are a good idea, and when are they misguided.
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Aug 27, 2024
The biggest supermarket merger in U.S history is in the hands of a federal judge. Government regulators want a district court in Oregon to stop a proposed deal that would merge Kroger and Albertsons.
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Aug 26, 2024
Authorities in Paris said on Monday that Durov is being held on questions stemming from an investigation into criminal activity on the app, including the spread of child pornography and facilitating the selling of illegal drugs.
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Aug 26, 2024
The ascendance of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has made the topic of free school lunch a political flashpoint. Over the past several years, several states—including Walz's home state of Minnesota—have created free school lunch programs, to the dismay of some House Republicans who believe government subsidies should go only to needy students.
Today on the show, we break down the economics of school lunch and explore whether universal programs are more effective than targeted programs.
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Aug 26, 2024
Australia is the latest country to protect workers who ignore work calls and messages after hours, under certain circumstances. The "right to disconnect" hasn't caught on in the U.S. just yet.
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Aug 26, 2024
Starbucks is bringing back its Pumpkin Spice latte, and it's only August!
(Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Aug. 26, 2024.)
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Aug 25, 2024
The road jersey is said to have been worn by the legendary slugger when he predicted his home run in the 1932 World Series. What actually happened has been the subject of debate for 92 years.
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Aug 25, 2024
Both major party presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same side of one issue. Getting rid of taxes on tips. But what would that really look like in practice?
Wailin Wong and Darian Woods from NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator, dive into the potential guardrails for a policy that many economists believe could easily go off track.
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Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
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Aug 25, 2024
The Russian-born tech billionaire is a citizen of France and the UAE. Telegram, which he co-founded in 2013, has nearly 1 billion users. It's known for its hands-off approach to content moderation.
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Aug 25, 2024
Google reaches a deal to fund local journalism in California. The state was working on legislation to force the tech giant to pay a portion of advertising profits to its struggling news industry.
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Aug 25, 2024
A proposed merger of two grocery giants, Albertsons and Kroger, goes to court tomorrow in a case that could have big implications for consumers.
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Aug 25, 2024
This year, well-known retailers including Home Depot, Michaels and Starbucks started promoting their fall or Halloween lines earlier than ever.
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Aug 24, 2024
The two sides have been in disagreement about whether Amazon bears legal responsibility to its delivery drivers, who are technically employed by third-party companies but deliver Amazon packages.
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Aug 23, 2024
When David Rashid took over US autoparts maker Plews and Edelmann, the company was losing business to its Chinese rival, Qingdao Sunsong. Both companies make power steering hoses, but Sunsong was offering its hoses to retailers at a much lower price.
Then, in 2018, the Trump administration threw companies like Rashid's a lifeline, by announcing tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, including some autoparts. Rashid thought the tariffs would finally force Sunsong to raise its prices, but, somehow, the company never did.
It was a mystery. And it led Rashid to take on a new role - amateur trade fraud investigator. How could his competitor, Sunsong, absorb that 25% tax without changing its prices? And why had all of Sunsong's steering hoses stopped coming from China and started coming from Thailand?
On today's episode, the wide gulf between how tariffs work in theory... and how they actually work in practice. And David Rashid's quest to figure out what, if anything, he could do about it. It's a quest that will involve international detectives, forensic chemists, and a friendship founded on a shared love for hummus.
This episode was hosted by Keith Romer and Jeff Guo. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and edited by Molly Messick. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Ko Takasugi-Czernowin. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
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Aug 23, 2024
Welcome to another edition of Indicators of the Week! On today's show, the large downward revision to jobs numbers, the awkward release of that news and a survey that asks U.S. workers for the minimum salary they would accept a new job for.
Related listening:
Getting more men into so-called pink collar jobs (Apple / Spotify)
Do I need a four-year degree? (Apple / Spotify)
Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation
Our 2023 Valentines
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Aug 23, 2024
The lawsuit says RealPage's algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.
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Aug 23, 2024
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell signaled that he's increasingly confident inflation will soon be tamed, and that he and his colleagues will soon cut interest rates to avoid hurting the job market.
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Aug 23, 2024
Food prices are still high, but your grocery bill doesn't have to be. Beth Moncel, founder of Budget Bytes, shares smart tips how to save money at the supermarket.
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Aug 23, 2024
Negotiations between Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and the Teamsters union, which represents 10,000 of the companies' employees, began about a year ago.
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Aug 23, 2024
A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it's crucial for the batteries that run electric vehicles.
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Aug 23, 2024
Pump prices having been falling all summer, and as Labor Day approaches, they're 47 cents lower than this time last year. Some analysts see $3 gasoline in our future.
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Aug 22, 2024
"We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error," a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement.
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Aug 22, 2024
Earlier this month, the White House unveiled a new initiative aimed at trying to serve and protect American consumers: Time is Money.
It's an array of actions the Biden Harris administration is taking to stomp out business processes that waste consumers time and money, like, for example, making it unnecessarily difficult to cancel a subscription, get an airline ticket refund, or file an insurance claim.
On today's episode: In a competitive market, companies want to treat their customers well or else they'll lose their customers to competitors ... so why does the White House want to intervene in this area of the free market?
Related Episode:
Junk fees, unfilled jobs, jackpot
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Aug 22, 2024
Google and the state of California are paying 250 million dollars over the next five years to California news outlets, and research AI technology they say will assist journalists.
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Aug 22, 2024
The fate of TikTok in the U.S. will be determined by a high-stakes court hearing set for September. But TikTok is demanding the government turn over its classified documents on the app.
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Aug 22, 2024
Tim Walz stepped into the spotlight last night at the DNC giving the crowd a pep talk. Here are five other takeaways from the convention so far. And, new COVID-19 vaccines are on the way.
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Aug 22, 2024
Both of Canada's major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that may bring economic disruption in Canada and the U.S.
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Aug 22, 2024
The satirical newspaper is now available in physical form for the first time since it stopped printing in 2013 because of a drop in paper ad sales.
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Aug 22, 2024
The satirical newspaper is now available in physical form for the first time since it stopped printing in 2013 because of a drop in paper ad sales.
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Aug 22, 2024
Major banks are paying out more in interest on some deposits. The team at "The Indicator from Planet Money" digs into why big banks aren't paying you much interest on your plain savings account.
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Aug 22, 2024
Canada's two main railways and unionized employees are at a contract impasse. Thousands of workers have been locked out, and the roughly $1 billion worth of goods that travel each day aren't moving.
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Aug 21, 2024
Like several aspects of the travel economy, renting a car is more expensive than it was before the pandemic. Today on the show, we explore the great reset happening in the U.S. rental car industry that's kept prices elevated, left fleets leaner, and customers frustrated.
Related episodes:
The semiconductor shortage (still)
Offloading EVs, vacating offices and reaping windfalls
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