#planetmoney

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For anyone with student loans, this Planet Money episode may be of special interest:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192703211/biden-save-plan-how-it-works

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Source: http://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1131371271089008640

Today’s episode digs into the relationship between Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump. It’s an excerpt from the podcast Trump Inc., made by our friends at @WNYC and @ProPublica. https://t.co/OhuYh64WNc

— NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney) May 23, 2019

@BillBramhall's cartoon

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Sometimes when I sketch I doodle a podcasters words. These words: Stacey from The Indicator.

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Source: http://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1046403799152242689

Lawrence had stumbled into an underground world: The big business of asylum fraud. https://t.co/dgEcW2YejG pic.twitter.com/OrBywqhXFk

— NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney) September 30, 2018

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Source: http://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1045781662293000192

Today on the Indicator: Corn prices are down, so what’s with the 20% increase in the price of Fritos in the @WhiteHouse press room? https://t.co/EZBzlufViE

— NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney) September 28, 2018

NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley asked us to solve a mystery for him: He's been reporting on corn prices, which have been falling lately, but when he went to get a snack from the vending machine in the press corps break room in the White House, he discovered the price of a bag of Fritos had risen 20% (a quarter!) Today on the Indicator, the case of the pricey Frito! A tale of transportation costs, tariff penalties, and our deep love of salty snacks.

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Source: http://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1020420519789846528

Socialism has made a big comeback over the last three years. Today on the show: Who are these new socialists? And what do they want? https://t.co/skPAqOZc05 pic.twitter.com/hhHjhqTBXZ

— NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney) July 20, 2018

Three years ago, the Democratic Socialists of America had about 6,000 members across the country--fewer than the American Racing Pigeon Union.

Since then, DSA membership has shot up more than 600 percent. And Democratic Socialist candidates are popping up across the country. One of them, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is likely to land a seat in the House of Representatives this fall.

Today on the show: How an ideology that was political poison for decades worked its way back into mainstream American politics. We'll meet some of these new socialists, and try to figure out what they want the economy to look like.

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Source: http://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1020412261456850944

Katz’s Deli in NYC was able to stay in business thanks to one thing they possessed – air. On today’s Indicator we tell you a story of how something completely invisible could shape the world around us in very real ways. https://t.co/phDCJKJn2M

— NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney) July 20, 2018

Jake Dell is the 5th generation owner of Katz's Delicatessen — America's oldest Jewish deli. A few years ago Jake had a problem. The neighborhood was changing, his overhead and his property taxes were skyrocketing, and he started to wonder, can a family-owned deli survive in one of the world's most expensive cities?

And then he realized he had something he could sell, something worth more than sandwiches and coleslaw, something that had been right under his nose the whole time... or rather right above his head.

Today on the show: how something completely invisible and completely intangible can shape the world around us in very real ways.