#planetmoney — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #planetmoney, aggregated by home.social.
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The planet money podcast is doing a series on publishing a book. This episode is on bookstore economics. It’s in my queue to listen to, but I listen to planet money podcast fairly regularly and they’re mostly good.
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I just listened to this Planet Money episode about NBA teams taking to get better draft picks: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5739178/nba-draft-tanking
Here's my plan for solving the problem. Tell me what's wrong with it!
Rank the teams based on their whole-season performance, BUT rather than considering all the games for the entire season, use a random subsample of games (like, say, ¼), with the random selection algorithm weighted to choose more games near the start of the season.
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Planet Money: "Don't hate the replicator, hate the game"
A solution to the "replication crisis" in some fields, maybe.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5720653/replication-crisis-games-abel-brodeur
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Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe 🚆
Why can't the US be like Europe, Japan or India? US railroads could still be worth bragging about.
"The US has more railroad tracks than any other country, including China, which has extensive rail systems. But those tracks are almost exclusively used to transport goods, not people."
#Trains #Rail #PassengerRail #FreightRail #US #AllanZarembski #PlanetMoney #Amtrak #TheIndicator #MardiGrasExpress
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So I assumed buy now pay later was a long term play where they would eventually charge for doing it.
Turns out the businesses are footing the bill if you use it
Learned from the planet money podcast from #npr
Buy now, pay dearly? (update) https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5605981:nx-s1-mx-5802357
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🚀 Another HARD-HITTING exposé from Planet Money reveals that modern medicine is apparently so advanced that we should all just be cured by now! 🙄 Meanwhile, 14 million Americans didn’t get the memo and continue to abuse the system for a good nap while earning those sweet disability checks. 😴💰
https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/ #HackerNews #PlanetMoney #ModernMedicine #DisabilitySystem #HealthCareExposé #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: Current events, economics
This week, the US imposed tariffs on the world, in proportion to America's trade deficit with each country, before putting tariffs for all but China on pause.
But what is a trade deficit? And is it a problem the US has the highest total trade deficit in the world? (It depends.) https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/1243652738/tariffs-trump-trade-deficit-white-house (24 minute listen)
#podcasts #economics #radyListens #planetMoney #tradeDeficit #capitalInflow #foreignInvestment #netExports #macroeconomics #housingCrisis
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NPR Podcast about the recent XZ backdoor hack that came close to breaking the internet: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1197959102/open-source-xz-hack
#opensource #XZ #XZHack #npr #podcast #podcasts #hack #hacking #CyberSecurityAwareness #CyberSecurity #opsec #supplychainattack #software #linux #unix #debian #RHEL #RedHat #hacker #hackers #PlanetMoney #backdoor #xzbackdoor
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Oh my, I'd missed that:
"Two behavioral scientists who study honesty accused of using falsified data"
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472
Amazing :masto_lol:
#behavior #behaviouralScience #fraud #data #planetMoney #DanAriely #psychology #FrancescaGino #nudge #HarvardBusinessSchool #honesty #insurance #taxes #guatemala #dmv #DataColada
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Oh my, I'd missed that:
"Two behavioral scientists who study honesty accused of using falsified data"
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472
Amazing :masto_lol:
#behavior #behaviouralScience #fraud #data #planetMoney #DanAriely #psychology #FrancescaGino #nudge #HarvardBusinessSchool #honesty #insurance #taxes #guatemala #dmv #DataColada
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Oh my, I'd missed that:
"Two behavioral scientists who study honesty accused of using falsified data"
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472
Amazing :masto_lol:
#behavior #behaviouralScience #fraud #data #planetMoney #DanAriely #psychology #FrancescaGino #nudge #HarvardBusinessSchool #honesty #insurance #taxes #guatemala #dmv #DataColada
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Oh my, I'd missed that:
"Two behavioral scientists who study honesty accused of using falsified data"
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472
Amazing :masto_lol:
#behavior #behaviouralScience #fraud #data #planetMoney #DanAriely #psychology #FrancescaGino #nudge #HarvardBusinessSchool #honesty #insurance #taxes #guatemala #dmv #DataColada
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Thanks to The Indicator for mentioning it https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-indicator-from-planet-money/id1320118593?i=1000613146926 #theindicator #planetmoney #podcast #npr
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#Tonight's #podcast listening includes @astronomycast, #NPR #TheIndicator from #PlanetMoney, #PlanetMoney, and then backlog #UniverseToday and #TheAncientWorld. I *might* get started on #HannibalAndThePunicWars podcast. That'll be either tonight or tomorrow.
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just realized i haven't made my nightly #podcast post.
Tonight's #podcasts are a lot of dailies and monthlies that i've been building up. I've got #DoctorWho #RealityBomb, #Verity, #BBCWitnessHistory, #UniverseToday, #NPR #ShortWave, #ConsiderThis, and #PlanetMoney's #TheIndicator.
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An interesting episode of @planetmoney about why there are so few women in IT.
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and so begins another night at work. let's see what surprises tonight has in store.
Tonight's #podcast listening includes #UniverseToday, #TheIndicator from #NPR #PlanetMoney, #RadioFreeSkaro, #Revolutions (currently listening to the French Revolution series), and @bhp.
Once I get my daily podcasts done, lots of history on tap.
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Tonight's #podcast listening includes #UniverseToday, #NPR #TheIndicator from #PlanetMoney, #RadioFreeSkaro, #2MinuteTimelord, #GallifreyPublicRadio, and #Verity. Lots of #DoctorWho podcasts on deck for tonight I see. (and scrolling through my backlog, looks like it's going to be a week of 7 year old doctor who podcast episodes galore)
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@adamdavidson intriguing! I may have to stray from #marketplace #hiddenbrain #planetmoney and #theindicator !
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New #introduction post to pin to my profile.
I love #knitting and have been doing it forever. I also like #reading, #skiing, #sewing, #girlscoutleading, and the #oxfordcomma, as well as different volunteer efforts like #boomerangbags. I nerd out listening to #economics podcasts like #marketplace, #planetmoney, #theindicator, #freakonomics, and also #hiddenbrain because brain science and #neuropsychology is cool.
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I love #knitting and have been doing it forever. I also like #reading, #skiing, #sewing, #girlscoutleading, and the #oxfordcomma, as well as different volunteer efforts like #boomerangbags. Major #climate anxiety. I nerd out listening to #economics podcasts like #marketplace, #planetmoney, #theindicator, and #hiddenbrain because brain science and #neuropsychology are cool. #math #mathgeek
Like to sew #BoomerangBags