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Firefighters battle the Caldor Fire this month along Highway 89 west of Lake Tahoe in California.

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  • Climate

How A Blistering Housing Market Could Be Making Wildfires Even More Dangerous

California homes are burning. Why are they still increasing in value in regions prone to fire?

September 14, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Brad Day and his neighbors in California's Sonoma Valley have noticed a real estate startup is turning houses in their community into limited liability corporations. A group has formed to oppose the company's moves. Day's favorite sign reads, "The Pacaso house is the big one on the right with no soul."

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  • Economy

A Startup Is Turning Houses Into Corporations, And The Neighbors Are Fighting Back

The real estate startup Pacaso has rocketed to a billion-dollar valuation — but its recent fights with communities could foreshadow business troubles ahead.

August 24, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

Home Prices Are Now Higher Than The Peak Of The 2000s Housing Bubble. What Gives?

A new study helps to explain the dynamics of our bonkers housing market.

August 17, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
The dog takeover

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  • Economy

How 'The Pet Revolution' Unleashed A New Top Dog In America

A new book argues that we've seen a fundamental shift in the treatment of pets since 1998.

August 11, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Frustrated investor, losing to a drunken monkey

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  • Economy

There's A Way You Can Beat The Best Investors. You've Just Got To Know When To Sell

A new study finds finance professionals fail at their jobs in a surprising way. There are lessons for all of us.

August 03, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
People walk past a poster showing members of the K-pop group BTS in Seoul on October 12, 2020. It's one of the most popular bands in the world, with an extremely devoted fan base.

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  • Business

'It's Mutual': This Is How BTS' Fans Put Their Money And Hearts Behind The Band

BTS isn't just one of the most popular bands in the world. It's also bringing billions of dollars to the South Korean economy.

July 29, 2021
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By:
  • Nell Clark
<em>Nudge: The Final Edition</em>

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  • Economy

The Behavioral Economics Manifesto Gets Revised

We speak with the Nobel Prize-winning founder of behavioral economics about the new — and last — version of his classic book, Nudge.

July 27, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

The Untamed Rise Of Hospital Monopolies

America has seen decades of consolidation of its hospitals, raising prices for consumers. President Biden now wants to do something about it.

July 20, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Apple's massive" spaceship" campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work.

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  • Economy

Why Remote Work Might Not Revolutionize Where We Work

Apple joins the ranks of tech firms freeing many employees from Silicon Valley offices. What this might mean for the geography of the American economy.

July 13, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

Beware Of 'Shrinkflation,' Inflation's Devious Cousin

Products are shrinking. Only some people are noticing.

July 06, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

What America's Startup Boom Could Mean For The Economy

The historic surge of new businesses seen in 2020 has continued through the first half of 2021. Is it merely a pendulum swing back to a normal economy, or a rocket ship to a better economy?

June 29, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Technology

A New Way To Understand Automation

We speak with one of the leading scholars of automation about its evolving impacts on society.

June 22, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

How 'Chaos' In The Shipping Industry Is Choking The Economy

The U.S. trade deficit is hitting record highs — and it's fueled by a surge in demand for imports, mostly from East Asia. On both land and at sea, the shipping industry is struggling to keep up.

June 15, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

How California Homelessness Became A Crisis

Homelessness has gotten out of control in the Golden State. Will California be able to solve it?

June 11, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Economy

Is There Really A Truck Driver Shortage?

The nation's big trucking employers have been arguing for decades that there's a trucker shortage. Is it really a shortage or something different?

May 26, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
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