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Money makes the world go around, faster and faster every day. On NPR's Planet Money, you'll meet high rollers, brainy economists and regular folks -- all trying to make sense of our rapidly changing global economy.
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#653: The Anti-Store
Today on the show: How Price Club and its imitators ...
Today on the show: How Price Club and its imitators changed the way we shop. And how a new company is taking what Price Club started to new extremes.
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#386: The Power of Free
Everybody likes free. But free can be dangerous. On today's ...
Everybody likes free. But free can be dangerous. On today's show, what happens when you take something that was free and give it a price. That's a highly risky move and the damage can be enormous.
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#652: The Hydrox Resurrection
Hidden in the trash heap of commerce there is buried ...
Hidden in the trash heap of commerce there is buried treasure. Abandoned brands, even beloved, trusted brands, are waiting to be claimed and reborn. Today on the show: a cookie comeback.
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#651: The Salmon Taboo
Today on the show: How hard could it be to ...
Today on the show: How hard could it be to get a nation of sushi lovers to try raw salmon?
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#650: The Scariest Thing In Hollywood
One Hollywood director leaves the world of big budget blockbusters ...
One Hollywood director leaves the world of big budget blockbusters for something even more lucrative: low budget Hollywood.
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#649: China, China, China
What's going on in China? Is the second largest economy ...
What's going on in China? Is the second largest economy in the world about to come crashing down?
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#648: The Benefits of Bankruptcy
When Roddey Player's business started heading south, he did everything ...
When Roddey Player's business started heading south, he did everything he could to avoid the big failure: bankruptcy. But what's painful for Roddey might just be the secret weapon of the U.S. economy.
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#200: The Moonshine Stimulus
We travel to Warm Springs to find out if the ...
We travel to Warm Springs to find out if the rumors are true: Did FDR really buy moonshine during Prohibition? Did he violate the Constitution he had sworn to protect?
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#647: Hard Work Is Irrelevant
Patty McCord helped create a workplace at Netflix that runs ...
Patty McCord helped create a workplace at Netflix that runs more like a professional sports team than a family. If you're not up to scratch, you're off the team. Is this the future of work?
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#502: The Afterlife Of A T-Shirt
When used clothes are donated to charity, they begin a ...
When used clothes are donated to charity, they begin a second life of sorting, refitting, and lots of travel. We trace used T-shirts to a clothing market in Nairobi, Kenya. For more: http://npr.org/shirt.
