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  1. 4 hours ago

    Volatile work schedules help explain why the US has a low unemployment rate, but a high level of economic anxiety:

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    11 hours ago

    Maybe somebody should declare this Economist Day -- both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes born on this date.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Farmer Mike Wallace argued with his neighbors about how to fight a weed. It led to his death.

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    13 hours ago

    What is something that is very highly rated that you think is still underrated? cc

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  5. Jun 4

    An argument over how to stop a weed divided neighbors and left a farmer dead.

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  6. Jun 3
    Replying to

    Thanks for the feedback everyone. We used the term pesticide because it includes both herbicides and insecticides.

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  7. Jun 3

    Our story: A good pesticide made it easier to be a good farmer. Until it stopped working.

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  8. Jun 2

    New show! Our reporter confronts a killer to find out why one farmer would kill another over weeds and pesticides.

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  9. Jun 2

    We're doing a live show! Come see & at TapeFest on June 10! You can buy tickets here:

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  10. Jun 2

    In a TV show starring Peru’s president, he’d listen to people’s bureaucracy problems--and do something about them.

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    Jun 1

    One report: up to 25% of shopping malls will close within five years.

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  12. Jun 1

    A Peruvian economist set up a fake factory to understand how business worked in Peru. Here’s what he found.

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  13. Jun 1

    Apple orchards are looking more like vineyards, and spurring an 'Apple Renaissance' by

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  14. Jun 1

    Hernando de Soto showed why a lot of Peru’s poor live outside the system.

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  15. May 31

    From the archives: Hernando de Soto found the wall trapping people in poverty. His discovery almost got him killed.

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    May 31

    Here's our episode on how Birkin keeps people paying ridiculous amounts for their handbags.

    A Birkin bag sets record auction price of $380,000 for a handbag
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  17. May 30

    In China, the sharing economy extends to basketballs and umbrellas. And it's companies that profit most -- in data.

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  18. May 30

    Supreme Court rules on that printer cartridge case we talk about in Ep. 762. Patents don't stop you from reselling.

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  19. May 28

    The Patent and Trademark office will say ’no’ to offensive names. But what’ offensive?

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  20. May 27

    The government rejected Simon Tam’s trademark application for his band, The Slants, citing .

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