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    <title>NPR: Planet Money Podcast</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>The Economy, Explained</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>#121 Planet Money: Facing Corruption In Nigeria</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Nuhu Ribadu spent years fighting corruption in Nigeria. From his early days in the Nigerian police force to his later years as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ribadu battled the corruption that strangled his country's economic growth. He had some success for a while, but after two attempts on his life, he was forced to leave his home country and come to the United States. He shares the stories of his struggle and says he hasn't given up yet.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:02:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nuhu Ribadu spent years fighting corruption in Nigeria. From his early days in the Nigerian police force to his later years as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ribadu battled the corruption that strangled his country's economic growth. He had some success for a while, but after two attempts on his life, he was forced to leave his home country and come to the United States. He shares the stories of his struggle and says he hasn't given up yet.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>corruption,Africa,economy,bribe,crimes,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>22:01</itunes:duration>
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      <title>#120 Planet Money: Shopping For An MRI (Outside The U.S.)</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We continue our search for answers about why MRI prices can differ so greatly. This time we travel from New Haven, Conn. to Japan, where an MRI costs only $160. Why? Well, it's because of the government, the quality of the machines and as we'll hear from neurologist Dr. Michiko Kimura Bruno, because Japanese people really love MRIs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[We continue our search for answers about why MRI prices can differ so greatly. This time we travel from New Haven, Conn. to Japan, where an MRI costs only $160. Why? Well, it's because of the government, the quality of the machines and as we'll hear from neurologist Dr. Michiko Kimura Bruno, because Japanese people really love MRIs.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Japan,health care,MRI,economy,reform,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>16:53</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#119 Planet Money: China Gives Us A Pep Talk</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NPR business correspondent Frank Langfitt headed to China a few weeks ago expecting to find a triumphant people. The Chinese economy has recovered much more quickly than many parts of the world and Langfitt says he thought people would be gloating. But that just wasn't the case, instead Langfitt found himself being comforted by the Chinese about the strength of the United States.

Many people he spoke to said their country still has a long way to go before overtaking the U.S. economy. Part of the reason, factory workers in the southern part of the country have seen layoffs that Langfitt says, just can't be compared to Detroit. Returning to factories he had visited years ago, Langfitt found doors locked and furniture strewn about outside. Why's that? It's simple &mdash; Americans have stopped buying.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[NPR business correspondent Frank Langfitt headed to China a few weeks ago expecting to find a triumphant people. The Chinese economy has recovered much more quickly than many parts of the world and Langfitt says he thought people would be gloating. But that just wasn't the case, instead Langfitt found himself being comforted by the Chinese about the strength of the United States.

Many people he spoke to said their country still has a long way to go before overtaking the U.S. economy. Part of the reason, factory workers in the southern part of the country have seen layoffs that Langfitt says, just can't be compared to Detroit. Returning to factories he had visited years ago, Langfitt found doors locked and furniture strewn about outside. Why's that? It's simple &mdash; Americans have stopped buying.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>China,United States,exports,consumption,economy,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>13:25</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#118 Planet Money: Looking For Criminals</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were acquitted on charges of fraud, stemming from the collapse of two funds they managed in 2007. The government alleged the men knowingly misled investors about the health of the funds by lying about how much money they had personally invested in them and how many redemptions they had. The defense argued that comments made by the men in personal emails were just strategy talk. WNYC reporter Lisa Chow covered the case, she joins us to talk about the verdict and what it may mean for future trials.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:27:48 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last week two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were acquitted on charges of fraud, stemming from the collapse of two funds they managed in 2007. The government alleged the men knowingly misled investors about the health of the funds by lying about how much money they had personally invested in them and how many redemptions they had. The defense argued that comments made by the men in personal emails were just strategy talk. WNYC reporter Lisa Chow covered the case, she joins us to talk about the verdict and what it may mean for future trials.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>financial crisis,crime,subprime,Bear Stearns,fraud,economy,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>18:40</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#117 Planet Money: Did The Cash Bring The Clunkers?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Anwyl, the chief executive of Edmunds.com, defends his company's latest report about the effectiveness of the much-hyped and recently closed Cash for Clunkers program. Edmunds found the program added only 125,000 in sales at a cost of $3.5 billion, or $24,000 per new car. 

But Austin Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist currently serving as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, doesn't think those numbers are right. His analysis puts the number of Cash for Clunkers sales closer to 450,000.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:53:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jeremy Anwyl, the chief executive of Edmunds.com, defends his company's latest report about the effectiveness of the much-hyped and recently closed Cash for Clunkers program. Edmunds found the program added only 125,000 in sales at a cost of $3.5 billion, or $24,000 per new car. 

But Austin Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist currently serving as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, doesn't think those numbers are right. His analysis puts the number of Cash for Clunkers sales closer to 450,000.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>cars,cash for clunkers,economy,stimulus,money,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>15:06</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#116 Planet Money: Breaking Up (Big Banks) Is Hard To Do</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Economist and Planet Money regular Simon Johnson thinks it's time to break up the big banks. Simon says the current regulations aren't enough to prevent another crisis and we need to do something more drastic. Former head of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker and Mervyn King, head of the British central bank, agree, but that hasn't convinced Martin Baily of the Brookings Institution. Baily, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, is worried about the unintended consequences of bad regulation. He says the risk simply isn't worth it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Economist and Planet Money regular Simon Johnson thinks it's time to break up the big banks. Simon says the current regulations aren't enough to prevent another crisis and we need to do something more drastic. Former head of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker and Mervyn King, head of the British central bank, agree, but that hasn't convinced Martin Baily of the Brookings Institution. Baily, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, is worried about the unintended consequences of bad regulation. He says the risk simply isn't worth it.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>banks,economy,money,Federal Reserve,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>23:31</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#115 Planet Money: We've Been Here Before</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When people talk about the current economic crisis they bring up the
Great Depression and Japan's lost decade, but the world's history of
'financial folly' spans much larger, through eight centuries and 66
different countries. In their new book, This Time Is Different,
economist Ken Rogoff of Harvard, and Carmen Reinhart of University of
Maryland, tell the stories of financial crises from medieval currency
debasements to the recent subprime mess. Reinhart says our current
troubles are nothing new, and what's worse, she predicts we're doomed to
repeat the mistakes of our predecessors.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:43:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/120261082/npr_120261082.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[When people talk about the current economic crisis they bring up the
Great Depression and Japan's lost decade, but the world's history of
'financial folly' spans much larger, through eight centuries and 66
different countries. In their new book, This Time Is Different,
economist Ken Rogoff of Harvard, and Carmen Reinhart of University of
Maryland, tell the stories of financial crises from medieval currency
debasements to the recent subprime mess. Reinhart says our current
troubles are nothing new, and what's worse, she predicts we're doomed to
repeat the mistakes of our predecessors.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>history,economics,financial crisis,money,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>12:29</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#114 Planet Money: Shopping For An MRI</title>
      <description><![CDATA[How can one hospital charge $800 for an MRI while the stand alone clinic down the street charges $450? 

We visit two MRI centers in Pensacola, Florida to find out.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:50:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/120198369/npr_120198369.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[How can one hospital charge $800 for an MRI while the stand alone clinic down the street charges $450? 

We visit two MRI centers in Pensacola, Florida to find out.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>MRI,health care,Planet Money,economics,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>20:45</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#113 Planet Money: Paying Doctors</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the government created the Medicare system in 1965, they were so desperate to get doctors into it that they allowed them set their own fees. 

The fee for service system was good for doctors, who now got paid for giving health care to the poor and elderly, but bad for the government. The crushing weight of doctors fees soon sent government budgets out of control. 

Ten years later, President Ford thought he had the solution, cap the fees paid to doctors. Unfortunately capping fees just caused another problem, overtreatment. 

It wasn't until the late 1980's that an economist from Harvard, Professor William Hsiao, finally came up with method to determine competitive prices for doctor's care &mdash; the relative value scale. Though this scale is used today, the problem of over paying doctors still exists. Hsiao, says that's because special interests have gotten a hold of his scale distorted it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:55:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/120108274/npr_120108274.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the government created the Medicare system in 1965, they were so desperate to get doctors into it that they allowed them set their own fees. 

The fee for service system was good for doctors, who now got paid for giving health care to the poor and elderly, but bad for the government. The crushing weight of doctors fees soon sent government budgets out of control. 

Ten years later, President Ford thought he had the solution, cap the fees paid to doctors. Unfortunately capping fees just caused another problem, overtreatment. 

It wasn't until the late 1980's that an economist from Harvard, Professor William Hsiao, finally came up with method to determine competitive prices for doctor's care &mdash; the relative value scale. Though this scale is used today, the problem of over paying doctors still exists. Hsiao, says that's because special interests have gotten a hold of his scale distorted it.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>health care,salary,Medicare,NPR,economics,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>20:14</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>#112 Planet Money: A Marshall Plan For Africa</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The world's governments have given a trillion dollars in aid developing nations since WWII, and yet in some countries, particularly in Africa, the economic situation is just as bad or worse than it's ever been.

Columbia economist and former economic adviser to the Bush administration, Glenn Hubbard, says it's time to change the way we give aid to Africa. Hubbard, co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, advocates a modern day Marshall plan, which would give money directly to local businesses instead of government.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:19:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/planetmoney?ft=2&amp;f=510289</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/120042468/npr_120042468.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world's governments have given a trillion dollars in aid developing nations since WWII, and yet in some countries, particularly in Africa, the economic situation is just as bad or worse than it's ever been.

Columbia economist and former economic adviser to the Bush administration, Glenn Hubbard, says it's time to change the way we give aid to Africa. Hubbard, co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, advocates a modern day Marshall plan, which would give money directly to local businesses instead of government.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Africa,poverty,aid,economics,NPR,NPR,National Public Radio,Planet Money,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>18:54</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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