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    May 15

    Episode 1,000 is here! Along the way, we’ve taken you inside the invention of money… the birth of the spreadsheet… space… but, one place we’ve never taken you — inside the show. For our 1,000th episode — we’ve got some secrets to share.

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  2. 15 hours ago

    In 2014, customers noticed changes at J. Crew. The Tippi sweater they loved? Out of stock. The Cece ballet flat? Not as good quality. Turned out that J. Crew had been bought by two private equity firms. And… well, that was just the Tippi of the iceberg.

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    23 hours ago

    Ed Glaeser on The Future of Cities ...

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    May 21

    Waiting for a Surge: Hospitals lost millions of dollars preparing for a flood of patients. Many never saw a surge. Now they’re trying everything they can think of to get patients to come back.

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  5. May 20

    From Planet Money’s sibling podcast, The Indicator — two stories that look at what’s between 2.2 trillion dollars and where it needs to go. This episode: trying to smoosh a fifty foot pile of money through a ten foot doorway.

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    May 15

    Where’s my check? State benefit offices were not staffed, equipped or prepared to handle the 36 million Americans who are now counting on them.

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    May 14

    is the first big pro sport to get back to business. Last Saturday held UFC 249. What lessons -- or cautionary tales -- did the event hold for other sports? With

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  8. May 19

    Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was compelled to by the US government as part of a program to create vaccines. Watch:

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    May 19

    Remote work is here to stay. Companies have paused buying up real estate in urban areas. Residents are fleeing big cities to avoid the virus. Entertainment ecosystems have virtually stopped. Which leads to ask: what's the future of cities?

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  10. May 19

    In New York City, around 5 percent of residents left between March 1 and May 1, but in the richest neighborhoods, at least 40 percent of people left. If the pandemic lasts for a while, what does it mean for our economic geography?

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  11. May 19

    As COVID-19 makes density a danger, we look at what’s in store for cities.

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  12. May 19

    If coronaviruses have been around for years, why don’t we have a vaccine already? This is the story of what it takes to produce a national vaccine supply. Watch:

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  13. May 18

    In undisclosed locations, the US government pays for an undisclosed number of chickens to stockpile an undisclosed number of chicken eggs. It’s part of a plan for an emergency vaccine supply in the event of a pandemic. So where’s the vaccine? Watch:

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    May 18

    What's the most compelling big, wild idea you've seen proposed to help us recover from the crisis?

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    May 16

    What are the most important chapters of Keynes’ General Theory?

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    May 15

    Mazel tov to , who will graduate (remotely) from this weekend. See if you can pick him out in today's meeting.

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    May 13

    What's listening to these days? and . "I haven’t found anything else that is as good at getting to both the economics of all this as well as really heartfelt stories and testimonials explaining the human toll."

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    May 14

    Today in the latest episode of , we travel to the future (i.e. Beijing) to see how restaurants there are letting the single MOST DANGEROUS thing back in their doors. People 😷😬

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    May 13

    Farmworkers are at high risk for : “Conditions are ripe for a massive outbreak. It should be the kind of thing that keeps people up at night.”

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  20. May 13

    Junzi owner Yong Zhao has a crystal ball that lets him see the future. With it… he’s hoping to reshape the Chinese food landscape in the U.S.

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