Planet Money
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How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
So you've been scammed, now what?
The junkyard economist
Anatomy of a layoff
The hack that almost broke the internet
Why Gold? (Classic)
Zombie mortgages are coming back to life
Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)
The birth of the modern consumer movement