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One specific type of affordable housing used to be popular in American cities, kept rents low, then nearly vanished. Is it time to reconsider boarding...
One reason the $70 billion supplement industry is set to double in the next seven years? Lax regulation.On today's show, we tell the story of a centur...
Have you ever walked around a street, mall, or airport and noticed two or three of the same franchise restaurant within walking distance? Why might on...
99% of chemicals in our food right now were added without FDA approval. Many were added in secret, through a sneaky loophole built into the 1958 Food...
Tax avoidance -- that is, legally reducing your tax bill -- is as American as apple pie. But the line between tax avoidance and tax evasion is often a...
How does a poor country become a rich country? There's a simple blueprint — or at least, that's what many economists used to believe. But over the yea...
