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The hack that almost broke the internet
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The hack that almost broke the internet

Last month, the world narrowly avoided a cyberattack of stunning ambition. The targets were some of the most important computers on the planet. Computers that power the internet. Computers used by banks and airlines and even the military.

The hack that almost broke the internet

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Why Gold? (Classic)

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Why Gold? (Classic)

In the past few months, the price of gold has gone way up – even hitting a new high last month at just over $2,400 per troy ounce.

Why Gold? (Classic)

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Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming back to life

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Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming back to life

Karen MacDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she sees something odd outside of her window: A group of people gathering on her lawn. A man with a clipboard tells her that her home no longer belongs to her. It didn't matter that she'd been paying her mortgage for 17 years, and was current on it. She was a nurse with a good job and had raised her kids here. But this was a foreclosure sale, and she was going to lose her house.

Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming back to life

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Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)
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Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)

Why do video game workers offer labor at a discount? How can you design a video game for blind and sighted players? Does that design have lessons for other industries?

Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)

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The birth of the modern consumer movement
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The birth of the modern consumer movement

Today on the show, the story of the modern consumer movement in the U.S. and the person who inspired it: Ralph Nader. How Ralph Nader's battle in the 1960s set the stage for decades of regulation and sparked a debate in the U.S. about how much regulation is the right amount and how much is too much.

The birth of the modern consumer movement

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Hire Power (Update)
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Hire Power (Update)

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2021.)

Hire Power (Update)

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The case of the stolen masks

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The case of the stolen masks

About thirty years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan woke up to the news that the temple he and his clan used had been broken into. The temple had been ransacked. And someone had stolen two holy Bhairav masks. Yagya says they had been in his family for more than five hundred years – since the 16th century.

The case of the stolen masks

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FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy
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FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy

For the last year and a half, the story of FTX has focused largely on the crimes and punishment of Sam Bankman-Fried. But in the background, the actual customers he left behind have been caught in a financial feeding frenzy over the remains of the company.

FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy

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Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)
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Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)

What's going on with consumers? This is one of the trickiest puzzles of this weird economic moment we're in. We've covered a version of this before under the term "vibecession," but it's safe to say, the struggle is in fact real. It is not just in our heads. Sure, sure, some data is looking great. But not all of it.

Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)

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