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Earlier this fall, the Federal Trade Commission filed a high-stakes lawsuit against Amazon.<br/><br/>In that suit, the FTC claims Amazon is a monopoly, and it accuses the company of using anti-competitive tactics to hold onto its market power. It’s a big case, with implications for consumers and businesses and digital marketplaces, and for antitrust law itself. That is the highly important but somewhat obscure body of law that deals with competition and big business.<br/><br/>And so, this week o…
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This episode originally ran in 2020.In 2005, Franklin Leonard was a junior executive at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company. A big part of his job was to find great scripts. The only thing — most of the 50,000-some scripts registered with the Writers Guild of America every year aren’t that great. Franklin was drowning in bad scripts ... So to help find the handful that will become the movies that change our lives, he needed a better way forward.Today on the show — how a math-loving movie nerd…
11 months ago
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During the pandemic, the IRS allowed Americans to roll over the balances in their health flexible spending accounts. But the end of 2022 marks the return of the use-it-or-lose-it policy for most FSAs.
about 1 year ago
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This episode, Micro-Face: The Musical. A full concert recording of a
one-of-a-kind Planet Money superhero musical, taped during our recent live show
at the Roulette Theater in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s more from our project We
Buy A Superhero.Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.…
over 1 year ago
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Where do holidays like National Potato Chip Day and Argyle Day come from? We
trace the roots of one made-up holiday until we find out who is running the
global holiday machine. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
about 2 years ago
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Planet Money’s Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza Did the supply chain wreck your
holiday shopping? Planet Money comes to the rescue. | Subscribe to our weekly
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about 2 years ago
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Kenny takes Jacob on a nerdy quest to find the “typical American.” Naturally, it ends up harder—and nerdier—than we planned, and the answer is more subtle than we expected. | Subscribe to our newsletter <a href=“https://www.npr.org/newsletter/money?utm_source=rss_feed_copy&utm_medium=podcast&utm_term=planet_money”>here</a>.
over 4 years ago
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At the turn of the 20th century, Ida Tarbell investigated John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. What she discovered changed the economy of the United States.
almost 5 years ago
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The bitcoin market has gone crazy. And it’s revealing something strange. A lot
of people can’t find their bitcoins. We go looking for lost billions.
about 6 years ago
