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Jul 18, 2014 · Episode 554: How The Burrito Became A Sandwich : Planet Money On today's show, how something as simple as a sandwich sales tax ends up a complicated list of definitions, exemptions and confusion ...
Aug 17, 2016 · Oil #3: How Fracking Changed the World : Planet Money Third of five episodes. The Planet Money oil faces a test, we sell it, and we meet the man who set off the fracking boom in America.
Feb 15, 2019 · Antitrust 1: Standard Oil : Planet Money At the turn of the 20th century, Ida Tarbell investigated John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. What she discovered changed the economy of the United States.
Aug 10, 2016 · Oil #1: We Buy Oil. August 10, 20163:16 PM ET. Listen · 18:20. 18-Minute Listen. Download. Embed. Transcript. Oil is everywhere, and in nearly everything: Our phones, our clothes, our food, and ...
Aug 19, 2016 · Transcript Credit: Douglas Eberhardt for NPR Some of Planet Money's oil is going to end up in someone's gas tank-- and some of it might end up in someone's someone's sandwich.
Oct 23, 2009 · Indiana University via Getty Images. On today's Planet Money: This month, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics. Ostrom explains ...
Aug 26, 2016 · Episode 1: We Buy Oil. Episode 1. We head to Kansas with a briefcase full of cash. We wait out a rainstorm, meet a preacher at an oil well and haggle over the price we'll pay for our oil. Episode ...
