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Episode 853: Peak Sand

July 13, 2018 • Sand. It's in buildings, windows, your cell phone. But there isn't enough in the world for everyone. And that's created a dangerous black market.

Episode 427: LeBron James Is Still Underpaid

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Episode 427: LeBron James Is Still Underpaid

July 11, 2018 • LeBron James is getting hosed. The NBA team owners, the players, the fans and even LeBron James himself want to keep it that way.

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Episode 852: Two Summer Indicators

July 6, 2018 • Two stories from our Indicator team. One province in China makes many of the world's flags. It's a unique window on global trade. And we find out why so few teenagers are working summer jobs.

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Episode 700: Peanuts And Cracker Jack

July 3, 2018 • It takes strategy and skill to sell snacks at a baseball game. Meet the hot dog vending legend of Fenway Park.

Episode 851: The Rest Of The Story Summer 2018

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Episode 851: The Rest Of The Story Summer 2018

June 29, 2018 • A pesticide wreaks havoc. A listener needs a bitcoin detective. And the search for the rarest economic good continues.

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Episode 850: The Fake Review Hunter

June 27, 2018 • Fake product reviews are wrecking the internet. But help is on the way: From a bodybuilding fake review hunter.

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Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded

June 22, 2018 • Politicians have argued for decades that CEOs are overpaid. But there's this precise moment in the 1990s when CEO pay suddenly shot up. We find out what happened.

Episode 849: It Takes Two To Make A Trade War Fight

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Episode 849: It Takes Two To Make A Trade War Fight

June 20, 2018 • President Trump says China is stealing U.S. technology. So we looked into one case. And things got a little complicated.

Episode 848: The World's Biggest Battery

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Episode 848: The World's Biggest Battery

June 15, 2018 • California has a ton of solar power. But as soon as night falls, it's gone. Today on the show: How to bottle the sun.

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Episode 847: Inventing Accidents

June 13, 2018 • The medical world has been trying to cure color blindness for centuries. Then a glass scientist figured it out. By accident.

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Episode 846: Ungerrymandering Florida

June 8, 2018 • When Florida outlawed partisan gerrymandering, politicians tried to sneak it back in ... in disguise.

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Episode 660: The T-Rex In My Backyard

June 6, 2018 • Meet Sue, the dinosaur who sparked a gold rush for fossils buried in the badlands of North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

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Episode 845: REDMAP

June 1, 2018 • Meet the man who figured out how to reshape national politics by making tiny investments in the smallest of places.

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Episode 844: Nice Game

May 30, 2018 • In game theory, sometimes the best way to win, is to lose.

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Episode 843: Swamp Gravy

May 25, 2018 • Today on the show: A small town stakes its future on writing, directing, and starring in a musical.

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Episode 643: The Taxi King

May 23, 2018 • Gene Freidman built a taxi empire. We visited him before he was in legal trouble.

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Episode 842: Showdown at the WTO

May 18, 2018 • The World Trade Organization: Can't live with it, hard to crush your trade opponents without it.

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Episode 696: Class Action

May 16, 2018 • Class actions run from big civil rights cases to arguments about pepper. Are they noble, or silly?

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Episode 841: The Land Of Duty Free

May 11, 2018 • We meet the man who invented duty free shopping and find out if these tax free stores are really saving us any money.

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Episode 840: Fixing Chicken

May 9, 2018 • Today on the show: A chicken index, some Wall Street investors, and an unlikely whistle-blower.

Episode 839: The Indicator Goes To California

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Episode 839: The Indicator Goes To California

May 4, 2018 • California is way more than Hollywood. Today on the show, we look at what else is going on in this powerhouse state economy.

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Episode 575: The Fondue Conspiracy

May 2, 2018 • Today on the show: How a cheese cartel abandoned the rules of economics and convinced the world to eat fondue.