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Four short stories about how we deal with the threat of danger, death, and crime.
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A listener questions the credibility of an anecdote in one of our shows. We follow up.
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"The shakes are great and if the company goes under because of this short-selling nonsense then I am totally going to go knock that guy down."
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The mystery why there was a global rice shortage and ever-increasing prices, all while countries were hoarding rice.
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A hedge-fund manager says a giant company is a fraud. The company fights back. On today's show, we talk to everybody. And we consider what it means when an investor bets that a company will fail.
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On today's show, we learn the surprising truth about what actually happens when you click that link to try and purchase herbal Viagra.
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On today's show: Three short stories about the stuff we buy — books, toys and clothes.
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Thousands of workers have flooded into the town. But they're reluctant to call it home.
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Why they built a three-mile-long bridge when they could have built a much shorter, cheaper bridge nearby.
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Is there a way to make the holiday season both more efficient and more joyful? On today's Planet Money, we try to answer that question by conducting a wildly unscientific experiment. We go into a seventh-grade classroom and give a bunch of kids some small gifts — candy, raisins, fig newtons.