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In 2019, Mike Ketchmark got a call. Mike is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, and his friend, Brandon Boulware, another lawyer, was calling about a case he wanted Mike to get involved with. Mike was an unusual choice - he’s a personal injury lawyer, and this was going to be an antitrust case. <br/><br/>But Brandon knew Mike was great in front of a jury. And that he’d won huge settlements for his clients in the past. <br/><br/>So the lawyer friend drops by Mike’s office, and pitches him the case…
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In 2019, Mike Ketchmark got a call. Mike is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, and his friend, Brandon Boulware, another lawyer, was calling about a case he wanted Mike to get involved with. Mike was an unusual choice - he’s a personal injury lawyer, and this was going to be an antitrust case. <br/><br/>But Brandon knew Mike was great in front of a jury. And that he’d won huge settlements for his clients in the past. <br/><br/>So the lawyer friend drops by Mike’s office, and pitches him the case…
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Dynamic pricing is an increasingly common phenomenon: You can see it when <a href=“https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surge-pricing-emergency-gouging-1.6670186”>Uber prices surge during rainy weather</a>, or when <a href=“https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/is-dynamic-airline-pricing-costing-us”>you’re booking a flight at the last minute</a> or <a href=“https://newrepublic.com/article/168988/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-dynamic-pricing”>buying tickets to your favorite superstar’s co…
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Argentina has been on a decades-long search for economic stability, but it always seems to be out of reach. High inflation has been plaguing the country and just surpassed 160% a year.<br/><br/>Over the past couple of years, the local currency has collapsed. One U.S. dollar used to be worth 20 Argentinean pesos in 2018. Today, one U.S. dollar is worth 1,000 pesos on the black market. And that means for Argentineans, the real prices of everything — from groceries to gas — have spiked.<br/><br/>In…
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Many states where marijuana has been legalized are now facing a marijuana glut — something that could be solved by shipping weed across state lines. But interstate trade of marijuana is still banned.
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In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. <br/><br/>And, jokes aside, it’s a real problem for people who work in the cannabis industry like Matt Ochoa. Ochoa runs the Jefferson Packing House in Medford, Oregon, which provides marijuana growers with services like drying, trimming and packing their product. He has seen literal tons of usable weed being left in marijuana fields all over the state of Oregon. Because, Ochoa says, there aren’t enough buye…
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In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. <br/><br/>And, jokes aside, it’s a real problem for people who work in the cannabis industry like Matt Ochoa. Ochoa runs the Jefferson Packing House in Medford, Oregon, which provides marijuana growers with services like drying, trimming and packing their product. He has seen literal tons of usable weed being left in marijuana fields all over the state of Oregon. Because, Ochoa says, there aren’t enough buye…
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Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, <em>support </em>for unions among Americans was the <a href=“https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%2D%2D%20Seventy%2Done,on%20this%20measure%20since%201965”>highest</a> it’s been in decades. This dissonance is due, in part, to the difficulties of one important phase in the life cycle of a union: setting up a union in the first place. One place whe…
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Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, <em>support </em>for unions among Americans was the <a href=“https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%2D%2D%20Seventy%2Done,on%20this%20measure%20since%201965”>highest</a> it’s been in decades. This dissonance is due, in part, to the difficulties of one important phase in the life cycle of a union: setting up a union in the first place. One place whe…
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The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world’s economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan... and Argentina.<br/><br/>If you want to understand what happens when inflation really goes off the rails, go to Argentina. Annual inflation there, over the past year, was 124 percent. Argentina’s currency, the peso, is collapsing, its poverty rate is above 40 percent, and the country may be on the verge of electing a far righ…
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Jelle Peterse’s company ships cheese all over the world, but they don’t always get their cheese racks back. In this episode, we try to fix a supply chain problem. Gouda grief!Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
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