The Indicator From Planet Money (Podcast)

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Why to look twice when your portfolio is doing well
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02, 2025
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President Jimmy Carter's economic legacy
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03, 2025
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The water mystery unfolding in the western U.S.
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06, 2025
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Why Netflix spent billions for WWE
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07, 2025
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What's a moneyline bet anyway?
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08, 2025
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What's going on with men's labor force participation?
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10, 2025
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How batteries are already changing the grid
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13, 2025
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How batteries are riding the free market rodeo in Texas
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14, 2025
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The race to produce lithium
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15, 2025
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Who's on the hook for California's uninsurable homes?
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16, 2025
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Student loans, savings accounts, and goodbye to artificial red dye
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17, 2025
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Add to cart: Greenland
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21, 2025
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Go ask ALICE about grocery prices
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22, 2025
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Why Trump's potential tariffs are making business owners anxious
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23, 2025
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Why China's DeepSeek AI is such a big deal
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24, 2025
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How GoFundMe can affect your FEMA eligibility
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27, 2025
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The cautionary tale of a recovering day trading addict
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28, 2025
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Federal hiring is about to get the Trump treatment
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29, 2025
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Canada's key resource against Trump's potential trade war
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30, 2025
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Running the numbers on deportation, interest rates and math
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31, 2025
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The reality stopping water pipelines to the parched western US
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03, 2025
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Trump threatens the grim trigger
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04, 2025
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Trump's tariff role model
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05, 2025
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How would a US sovereign wealth fund even work?
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06, 2025
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A 'Fork in the Road' for federal employees
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07, 2025
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How the memecoin game is played
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10, 2025
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The U.K.'s tariff balancing act
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11, 2025
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Exposing Charles Ponzi
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12, 2025
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The gutting of USAID
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13, 2025
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Bailing out the FAIR plan, broligarchs beef, and CFPB RIP?
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14, 2025
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WWE, a very expensive banana, and a quiz contestant
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17, 2025
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What the cluck is happening with egg prices?
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18, 2025
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How USAID cuts hurt American farmers
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19, 2025
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What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away
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20, 2025
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Chicken meat, Gulf of Mexico lawsuit and Social Security beyond the grave
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21, 2025
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What if our income was taxed ... totally differently?
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24, 2025
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What's the long-term cost of federal layoffs?
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25, 2025
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A polite message from Canada to the U.S.
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26, 2025
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Europe's NATO members take an economic hit
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27, 2025
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Slender Starbucks, Medicaid at risk, and the gold card visa
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28, 2025
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How tourist destinations recover after terrorism
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03, 2025
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Can the Federal Reserve stay independent?
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04, 2025
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Is the Panama Canal a rip-off?
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05, 2025
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What to make of the Ukraine minerals deal
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06, 2025
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Can ... we still trust the monthly jobs report?
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07, 2025
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What Bad Bunny teaches us about Puerto Rican tax law
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10, 2025
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Can you take government spending out of GDP?
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11, 2025
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The stock market is down, but you don't need to be
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12, 2025
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How many times can you say uncertainty in one economic report?
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13, 2025
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Southwest surprises, tariff guac shock, and fraud flourishes
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14, 2025
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Why is the federal government still killing coyotes?
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17, 2025
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What might save China's economy
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18, 2025
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Why there's no referee for the trade war
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19, 2025
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What's this about a crypto reserve?
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20, 2025
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A new-ish gold rush and other indicators
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21, 2025
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How specialization can lead to burn-out
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24, 2025
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How's ... everybody doing?
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25, 2025
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Can Europe stand without the US?
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26, 2025
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How nonprofits get cash from your clunker
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27, 2025
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Missing taxes, spiking copper and Napster's re-re-rebirth
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28, 2025
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Overly Friendly Emails and other marketing pet peeves
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31, 2025
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Should we vote for all judges?
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01, 2025
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What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you
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02, 2025
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Why the great vinyl shortage is over
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03, 2025
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How states are scooping up federal workers
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04, 2025
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Tariffied! We check in on businesses
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07, 2025
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What's so bad about a trade deficit?
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08, 2025
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What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?
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09, 2025
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What keeps a Fed president up at night
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10, 2025
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IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future
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11, 2025
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How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)
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14, 2025
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The spat over VAT
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15, 2025
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Did Trump enable insider trading?
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16, 2025
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Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)
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17, 2025
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A trap-loving DJ takes on economics
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21, 2025
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China's trade war perspective
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22, 2025
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Dealmaker Don v. Tariff Man Trump
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23, 2025
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Who's advising Trump on trade?
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24, 2025
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Student loans are back, U.S. travel is whack, and AI — please, step back
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25, 2025
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When do boycotts work?
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28, 2025
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Is the US pushing countries towards China?
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29, 2025
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How stable is Stablecoin?
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30, 2025
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How much international students matter to the economy
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01, 2025
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American science brain drain
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02, 2025
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Trump's cuts come for food banks
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05, 2025
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What do farmers do in a trade war?
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06, 2025
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Why do shrimpers like tariffs?
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07, 2025
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It's hard out there for a Fed chair
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08, 2025
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What's in YOUR wallet?
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09, 2025
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It's actually really hard to make a robot, guys
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12, 2025
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A brief history of NPR funding
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13, 2025
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What we misunderstand about gun violence
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14, 2025
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Bond market nightmares
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15, 2025
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Brain-controlled iPhones, a Japanese asset buy-a-thon, and Trump tax cut debt
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16, 2025
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The Art of the Deal ft. Beyoncé
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19, 2025
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The rise of the credit card airport lounge
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20, 2025
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The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.
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21, 2025
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How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin
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22, 2025
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Target, Klarna and Sesame Street's new addy
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23, 2025
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The dawn of search engines
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26, 2025
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How to build abundantly
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27, 2025
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Why are college coaches paid so much?
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28, 2025
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Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?
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29, 2025
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Let's 'TACO' 'bout General Motors gassing up V-8s and golden shares
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30, 2025
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Why Gen Z is feeling 'money dysmorphia'
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02, 2025
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Who should get mom's ring?
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03, 2025
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An indicator lost: big disaster costs
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04, 2025
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Gilded Age 2.0?
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05, 2025
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Why U.S. workers keep getting more productive
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06, 2025
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How doctors helped tank universal health care
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09, 2025
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What's a revenge tax?
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10, 2025
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The secret tariff-free zone
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11, 2025
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The hidden costs of healthcare churn
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12, 2025
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Trump's parade, FEMA phase out, and Warner Bros. Discovery divorces ... itself?
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13, 2025
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The secret to Nintendo's success
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16, 2025
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Mixing family business with US trade policy in Vietnam
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17, 2025
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Why the 30-year bond matters
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18, 2025
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SALT-n-pessimism
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20, 2025
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You told us how tariffs are affecting you
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23, 2025
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Will Iran block the Strait of Hormuz?
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24, 2025
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One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away
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25, 2025
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We're gonna need a bigger boat-building industry
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26, 2025
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Babies v climate change; AI v IP; bonds v world
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27, 2025
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Can Starlink stay ahead in satellite internet?
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30, 2025
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We're nearing 'peak population.' These economists are worried
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01, 2025
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Tech layoffs, recession pop and more listener questions answered
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02, 2025
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How ICE crackdowns are affecting the workforce
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03, 2025
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One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away (EXTENDED VERSION)
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04, 2025
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Why can't we insure trees?
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07, 2025
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Will the tax cuts pay for themselves?
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08, 2025
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Can you afford to evacuate ahead of a disaster?
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09, 2025
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Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams?
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10, 2025
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Red tape indicators: sports betting, R&D and click-to-cancel
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11, 2025
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Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey
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14, 2025
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Why aren't filmmakers shooting in LA?
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15, 2025
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The story of China and Hollywood's big-screen romance
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16, 2025
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When is cosplay a crime?
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17, 2025
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Are you not entertained ... by our movie-related indicators?
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18, 2025
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Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
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19, 2025
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Bonus episode: The Indicator plays... movie business trivia!
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20, 2025
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Your tinned fish obsession is helping resurrect a lost industry
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21, 2025
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Lunch with the man who coined TACO
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22, 2025
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When Uncle Sam owned banks and factories
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23, 2025
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How to beach on a budget
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24, 2025
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Nigeria notches new highs, Magic gathers millions, and crypto climbs
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25, 2025
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A baby bonds bonanza
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28, 2025
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The hottest multilateral club doesn't include the US
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29, 2025
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The risk of private equity in your 401(k)
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30, 2025
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Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion
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31, 2025
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How you're using AI at work
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01, 2025
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What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Update)
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04, 2025
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Can we still trust the monthly jobs report? (Update)
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05, 2025
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What you need to know about the jobs report revisions
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06, 2025
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The legal case for — and against — Trump's tariffs
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07, 2025
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More for Palantir, less for mRNA, and a disaster database redemption arc
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08, 2025
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What we're reading on the beach this summer
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11, 2025
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The arduous system for getting aid into Gaza
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12, 2025
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Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store
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13, 2025
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Why every A-lister also has a side hustle
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14, 2025
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The nepo baby premium, frothing markets, and Apple vs. Apples
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15, 2025
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Three innovations pushing the medical field forward
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18, 2025
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How algorithms are changing the way we speak
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19, 2025
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Cobalt-free batteries reign in Chinese EVs. Why not the US?
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20, 2025
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What happens when railroads get hitched
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21, 2025
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Job retraining and the brain, DC dining, and Robinhood's sports bet
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22, 2025
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Can you copyright artwork made using AI?
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25, 2025
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Three ways companies are getting around tariffs
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26, 2025
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What olive oil tells us about Trump's tariffs
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28, 2025
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AI creeps in, KATSEYE milkshakes, and China says “Zaijian!” to US soybeans
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29, 2025
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Inside the illegal vape boom
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02, 2025
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So long, farewell, super cheap tariff-free shopping
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03, 2025
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How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?
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04, 2025
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Why moms are leaving their paid jobs
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05, 2025
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Teamwork actually does make the dream work
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08, 2025
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The cost of saving a species
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09, 2025
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Can shareholders influence Elon Musk's trillion dollar pay package?
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10, 2025
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We read your mail on AI-proof jobs and how to fix crime labs
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11, 2025
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ICE raids, cooling on capitalism, and a Murdoch settlement
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12, 2025
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Why beef prices are so high
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15, 2025
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Why an aggressive rate cut could backfire on Trump
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16, 2025
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The crypto market is hot. But is it an illusion?
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17, 2025
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Why "free" public education doesn't always include school supplies
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18, 2025
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The Fed cuts rates, America's FICO dips, and forever ends for sweepstakes winners
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19, 2025
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Can LA host a 'car-free' Olympics?
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22, 2025
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Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned?
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23, 2025
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Why are so many public schools closing?
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24, 2025
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No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines
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25, 2025
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Argentina's bailout, a new way to cool data centers, and a cold holiday hiring season
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26, 2025
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What media consolidation means for free speech
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28, 2025
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What media consolidation means for free speech
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29, 2025
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We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers
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30, 2025
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Why is everyone buying gold?
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01, 2025
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How close is the US to crony capitalism?
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02, 2025
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Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore
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03, 2025
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Vice Series: The evolving business of crime
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05, 2025
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Fighting AI with AI
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06, 2025
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What’s supercharging data breaches?
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07, 2025
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When cartels start to diversify
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08, 2025
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How AI might mess with financial markets
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09, 2025
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Scam compounds, sewing patterns and stolen dimes
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10, 2025
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Why do we live in unusually innovative times?
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14, 2025
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Inside the growing industry to defend schools from mass shootings
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15, 2025
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OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy
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16, 2025
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Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine
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17, 2025
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Why are veterinarian bills getting so ruff on the wallet?
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20, 2025
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