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The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans

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This is Planet Money from NPR. You know how sometimes you rewatch a movie and you're like, what a second. The big twist was planted right there in the beginning and I just didn't notice it. Well, well, this here today, this is one of those kinds of stories. Yeah, except this was not a movie. This was last year when Pr...

Planet Money Paper Club

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Just a heads up, this episode mentions the company LinkedIn, which has been a sponsor of NPR. This is Planet Money from NPR. We here at Planet Money read e-con papers, a lot of them. A lot of them, because buried in those figures and charts and Greek, clattery formulas are incredible observations about our world. Yes,...

Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker

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This is Planet Money from NPR. Welcome back to Planet Money Summer School, MBA edition. No uncomfortable suits, no boring power points, just the secrets of business school delivered straight to your brain. I'm Robert Smith and this is lesson number two, competition and the chief or sneaker. Every Wednesday till Labor...

Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet

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This is Planet Money from NPR. You know when you're downloading a nap or signing up for a website? There's those little check boxes or sometimes it's just a link. Read our terms of service. They're like everywhere. Yeah, well I never used to read those things. Me neither. We're all just like clicking next next next ne...

The Town That Changed Economics

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This is Planet Money from NPR. The police were Carol and Nicasa grew up. She says it's not a place she ever expected the rest of the world to care about. I was born and raised in a small town in Weston, Kenya called Bussia. It's a one street town. You know, it's a town that doesn't have a roundabout. Bussia, Kenya. It...

The Spider-Man Problem (update)

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This is Planet Money from NPR. The biggest superhero blockbuster of 2023 is not Marvel's newest ant-man movie. It is also not Marvel's newest Guardians of the Galaxy movie. No, no, it is the newest Spider-Man movie. What's a guy I gotta do to join this spider-man? See, you can never be part of this. No stations, stop...

AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization

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This is Planet Money from NPR. Hello and welcome to Planet Money, I'm Jeff Guau, and I'm Kenny Malone, and Jeff, here we are, the big day, the third and final part of our Artificial Intelligence series. That's right, it is the world premiere of the first ever Planet Money episode written entirely by Artificial Intelli...

Predictions: Jobs!

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This is Planet Money from NPR. Hello and welcome back to Planet Money Predictions, the show where economic forecasters make economic forecasters. And then come back later to gloat about what they got right and to own what they got wrong. Previously on the show, there's been victory, defeat, laughter, tears and a lot o...

How AI could help rebuild the middle class

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This is Planet Money from NPR. It's been about six months since Chatschy BT was released to the public. And basically, from the moment that happened, it felt like this seismic shift. Because all of a sudden, people everywhere realized just how powerful artificial intelligence already is. They began using this AI chatb...

Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral

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This is Planet Money from NPR. Inflation for a lot of us might just feel like prices going up on us, right? But there is something that like kicks off inflation, that gets the inflation train going. Economists say it is too much demand chasing too little supply. Too much money, not enough things to buy. But something...

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