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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:

  2. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

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

  3. 11 hours ago

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

  4. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

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

  5. Jun 4

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

  6. Jun 3
    Replying to

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

  7. Jun 3

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

  8. Jun 2

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

  9. Jun 2

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

  10. Jun 2

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

  11. Retweeted
    Jun 1

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

  12. Jun 1

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

  13. Jun 1

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

  14. Jun 1

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

  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
  17. May 30

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

  18. May 30

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

  19. May 28

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

  20. May 27

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

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