Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance
World Today
October 14, 2023
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Note: There is swearing in this episode . In 2017, The University of Minnesota asked comedian Maria Bamford to give their commencement spe...
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Showing posts with label Earning Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earning Money. Show all posts
Saturday 14 October 2023
Thursday 12 October 2023
Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic)
World Today
October 12, 2023
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Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn't change. From 1886 until the late...
Saturday 7 October 2023
A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay
World Today
October 07, 2023
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In 2007, Uruguay had a massive problem with no obvious fix. The economy of this country of 3.5 million people was growing, but there wasn...
Thursday 5 October 2023
The flight attendants of CHAOS
World Today
October 05, 2023
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When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants' union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make...
The flight attendants of CHAOS
World Today
October 05, 2023
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When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants' union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make...
Saturday 30 September 2023
A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions
World Today
September 30, 2023
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Ba-dee-yah! Say do you remember? Ba-dee-yah! Questions in September! That's right - it's time for Listener Questions! Every so o...
Thursday 28 September 2023
The natural disaster economist
World Today
September 28, 2023
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There seems to be headlines about floods, wildfires, or hurricanes every week. Scientists say this might be the new normal — that climate ch...
Saturday 23 September 2023
A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina
World Today
September 23, 2023
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The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world's economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries...
Thursday 21 September 2023
"Based on a true story"
World Today
September 21, 2023
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When a group of amateur investors rallied around the stock for GameStop back in 2021, the story blew up the internet. News outlets around th...
Thursday 14 September 2023
China's weakening economy in two Indicators
World Today
September 14, 2023
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In China, data on the economy is sometimes difficult to come by. The Chinese government has put a pause on releasing some of its official ec...
Saturday 9 September 2023
Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?
World Today
September 09, 2023
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When economists and policymakers talk about getting inflation under control, there's an assumption they often make: bringing inflation d...
Thursday 7 September 2023
The prince of prints and his prints of Prince
World Today
September 07, 2023
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In 1981, photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of the musician Prince. It's a pretty standard headshot — it's in black-and-whi...
Saturday 2 September 2023
How to fight a patent pirate
World Today
September 02, 2023
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Back in the 1990s, Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. Some univer...
Thursday 31 August 2023
Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank
World Today
August 31, 2023
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Congratulations to the Planet Money Summer School Class of 2023! Today, you become masters of business administration... spelled with lowe...
Saturday 26 August 2023
The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines
World Today
August 26, 2023
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Across Hollywood right now, writers and actors are picketing in front of studio lots. They're walking back and forth, holding up signs d...
Thursday 24 August 2023
Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble
World Today
August 24, 2023
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How do you get the best deal? How do you know you're getting the best deal? Whether you're talking down the price of a car or talki...
Saturday 19 August 2023
Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it
World Today
August 19, 2023
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Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice. Every single worker in the Eu...
Thursday 17 August 2023
Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses
World Today
August 17, 2023
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"It's difficult to control everything," says our guest professor for this week, Santiago Gallino. "What is not difficult ...
Saturday 12 August 2023
The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans
World Today
August 12, 2023
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This summer, the Supreme Court struck down Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers. Except, on the same day ...
Thursday 10 August 2023
Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma
World Today
August 10, 2023
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For anyone running a business, technology is both threat and opportunity. Today, we run through techniques entrepreneurs can use to take adv...
