There is one person in millerdl’s collective.
Everybody likes free, and the Internet is bursting with free services. But as companies try to figure out how to make money, consider a cautionary tale about free doughnuts and the Red Cross.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/13/156723516/episode-386-the-cost-of-free-doughnuts
A group of people tried to fix a problem, but wound up creating a banking monster.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/12/154876489/episode-378-how-spain-created-a-banking-monster
The answer has to do with history, politics, and a growing class of entrepreneurs who are struggling to pick a side.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/25/153699815/why-is-syria-locked-in-endless-conflict
In 1978, a group of farmers in a Chinese village called Xiaogang wrote a secret contract and hid it in the roof of a mud hut. They were afraid the document might get them executed. Instead, it wound up completely transforming the Chinese economy.
On today’s show, we talk to Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/28/160195703/episode-398-obama-ryan-and-two-dead-economists
On today’s show, a flooded grocery store reveals backup plans that are usually hidden but, at moments like these, are suddenly made visible.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/02/164202295/episode-414-after-the-flood-the-backup-plan
The answer includes a half a million vending machines, a 7.5 cent coin, and a company president who just wanted to get a couple lawyers out of his office.
The unemployment rate in Germany is just 6 percent â and it’s declining. We spent a week in Germany learning their secret recipe.
On today’s show: Cross-border tensions in the home of the euro.
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