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    Sep 23, 2016

    Marketplace Weekend for Friday, September 23, 2016

    This week, Andrea Seabrook and The Atlantic’s Gillian White play the Long and Short game. We also look at pressure cookers, fertilizer and other everyday items that can be used to make weapons, and the ways we can start keeping tabs on them. Listeners call in with the questions they’ve always wanted to ask about money, plus Lizzie catches up with Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab as kids head back to school. Television cooking personality Alton Brown takes the Marketplace quiz. The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy explains why data centers are opening up across rural America, but aren’t bringing any new jobs. Finally, a conversation with Christine Moellenberndt, Reddit’s on-site anthropologist.

    Alton Brown takes the Marketplace Quiz!
    Alton Brown takes the Marketplace Quiz!
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    This week, Andrea Seabrook and The Atlantic’s Gillian White play the Long and Short game. We also look at pressure cookers, fertilizer and other everyday items that can be used to make weapons, and the ways we can start keeping tabs on them. Listeners call in with the questions they’ve always wanted to ask about money, plus Lizzie catches up with Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab as kids head back to school. Television cooking personality Alton Brown takes the Marketplace quiz. The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy explains why data centers are opening up across rural America, but aren’t bringing any new jobs. Finally, a conversation with Christine Moellenberndt, Reddit’s on-site anthropologist.

    Marketplace Weekend for Friday, September 23, 2016