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    Planet Money: Single Women Are Shortchanged In The Housing Market
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Planet Money: Single Women Are Shortchanged In The Housing Market

    A new study from Yale School of Management found a gender bias in the housing market means single women often lose out, whether they're...
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    All The Single Ladies...Are Losing In The Housing Market
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 1 min

    All The Single Ladies...Are Losing In The Housing Market

    It's generally tricky negotiating the price of a house, whether you're buying or selling. But a recent study from Kelly Shue and Paul...
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    American Icons: ‘My Ántonia’
    Sally Herships
    • Nov 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    American Icons: ‘My Ántonia’

    Some great novelists get the acclaim and readership they deserve, and some don’t. Willa Cather is one who has not.
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    Sally Herships
    • Sep 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Amazon Opens Brick-And-Mortar Stores Meant To Emphasize Convenience

    Amazon is opening new stores — in the real world. And in true Big Tech fashion the experience is meant to emphasize convenience. All you...
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    Sally Herships
    • Sep 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Why China, The World's Largest Rice Producer, Quietly Bought U.S. Rice Last Year

    China is the world's biggest rice producer. So why did it agree to buy two shipping containers of rice from the U.S.? Planet Money...
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    The Rise Of The Blue-Collar Noncompete
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Rise Of The Blue-Collar Noncompete

    Workers in sales jobs, or those who have access to a company's trade secrets, are often asked to sign noncompete clauses as part of their...
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    Sports Teams Need To Fill Stadiums
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 8, 2019
    • 1 min

    Sports Teams Need To Fill Stadiums

    Attendance at most sporting events has dropped in the last decade — and continues to fall. Sports teams have put most of their efforts...
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    Sally Herships
    • Jul 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Cornhole And Other Less Traditional Sports Gather More Attention

    Niche sports, such as cornhole, axe throwing and even professional arm wrestling, are beginning to attract interest and money. These less...
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    Amazon #FAIL...?
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Amazon #FAIL...?

    The online food delivery industry has managed to solve an issue that has managed to stifle online retailers-- the so-called...
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    Niche Sports Cashing In
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Niche Sports Cashing In

    Games that may have been played at a party with a beer cup in hand, or before that big college football game — like cornhole, darts or...
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    A town called DISH
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    A town called DISH

    When a small town in Texas changed its name to DISH, the satellite TV company gave its residents free TV for a decade. What DISH Network...
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    Coffee? Thank U, Next
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Coffee? Thank U, Next

    That pricing disconnect comes from a lot of moving parts in the industry. For example, there's an oversupply of coffee beans, and...
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    Saying 'I Do' To Lab-Grown Diamonds
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Saying 'I Do' To Lab-Grown Diamonds

    A lot of money is pouring into the global diamond industry, but demand for diamonds has been less than lustrous of late. But, at the same...
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    The VW Beetle's Dark Past
    Sally Herships
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    The VW Beetle's Dark Past

    The Volkswagen Beetle is a symbol of peace, love, and harmony. It’s also a product of Nazi Germany. The story of how the Beetle...
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    The Division Problem
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Division Problem

    We take a look at a problem that has dogged humans for centuries: How do you divide goods fairly? #Economy
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    Kentucky Fried Christmas
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 1 min

    Kentucky Fried Christmas

    How did Colonel Sanders and Kentucky Fried Chicken take over Christmas in Japan? PLUS: Household Name Uncut covers some Christmas...
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    College Side Hustle
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    College Side Hustle

    Enrollment of both undergrads and graduate students has been declining for years. Meanwhile colleges are getting more creative in finding...
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    Beating Bollywood
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    Beating Bollywood

    India's population is 1.3 billion. So it only makes sense that American streaming giants Amazon and Netflix would want to get into the...
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    Japan eases immigration restrictions to fill chronic care worker shortage
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Japan eases immigration restrictions to fill chronic care worker shortage

    Walk through the sliding glass doors of the Shirokane no Mori nursing home in Tokyo and you’ll find a cabinet with individual cubbies...
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    The Price of Rice In Japan
    Sally Herships
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Price of Rice In Japan

    The Japanese are eating less rice. Blame TV, the internet, burgers, Italian food, a growing economy. Blame the lunch ladies! Rice...
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