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January 24, 2020

January 24, 2020 • You may be owed money. The government may decide to just use it. So we go looking for it inside a little-known "lost and found" of forgotten fortunes. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 967: Escheat Show

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January 22, 2020

Episode 966: The Rise Of Putin

January 22, 2020 • Our friends at Throughline dive into the life of Vladimir Putin and try to understand how he became Russia's new "tsar." | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 966: The Rise Of Putin

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January 17, 2020

Episode 965: Das Green Old Deal

January 17, 2020 • We team up with Vox's The Impact, to tell the story of how one man changed the way Germany – and arguably the world – uses energy. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 965: Das Green Old Deal

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January 15, 2020

Episode 964: BILLBOARDS

January 15, 2020 • We are dedicating an entire show to billboards: good and old-fashioned, or fancy and high-tech. And we put up our own. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 964: BILLBOARDS

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January 10, 2020

Episode 963: 13,000 Economists. 1 Question.

January 10, 2020 • We went to the American Economic Association's annual conference and asked: What's the most useful idea in economics? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 963: 13,000 Economists. 1 Question.

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January 8, 2020

Episode 386: The Cost Of Free Doughnuts

January 8, 2020 • Free is cool, but it can backfire. On today's show, what happens when you take something that's free and give it a price. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 386: The Cost Of Free Doughnuts

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Episode 962: Advanced Fairness At The Marathon

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January 3, 2020

Episode 962: Advanced Fairness At The Marathon

January 3, 2020 • Four lessons for creating fairness from a big race in New York. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 962: Advanced Fairness At The Marathon

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Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil

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January 1, 2020

Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil

January 1, 2020 • Inflation in Brazil was out of control for a decade. Four former drinking buddies from grad school fixed it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil

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Episode 961: The Rest Of The Story, 2019

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December 27, 2019

Episode 961: The Rest Of The Story, 2019

December 27, 2019 • A lot can happen after we put an episode out into the world. In The Rest Of The Story, we check-in on stories we've reported. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here

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December 25, 2019

Episode 960: The Writers Revolt

December 25, 2019 • In April, 7,000 TV writers across the U.S. fired their agents. All on the same day. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Episode 960: The Writers Revolt

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