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Sep 19, 2016

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Why a boring part of the market is going crazy, how Amazon ran away with the Emmys and where a pipeline leak can slow down a whole region. Plus: how do dollar stores outrun inflation?

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A single pipeline leak slows the Southeast

by Jed Kim
Sep 19, 2016
Many kinds of disconnects impact pipelines these days: some physical, others cognitive.
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Chinese investors are buying up French farmland

by John Laurenson
Sep 19, 2016
French farmland is being sought by China in a bid to assure its own food supplies.
A farmer drives a combine harvester during a wheat harvest in Monthodon near Tours, central France.  
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Using data and algorithms to style men

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Sep 19, 2016
Online styling service Stitch Fix launches a men's line.
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How do dollar stores buck inflation?

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 19, 2016
Our listener asks: How do dollar stores still sell the same items for $1 as they did years ago?
   
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The Emmys and how Jeff Bezos changed the world

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 19, 2016
Newer media companies snap up Emmys.
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A boring segment of the stock market is on fire

by Mark Garrison
Sep 19, 2016
With bond yields low, investors are flocking to dividend-paying funds.
   
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America is graying — but that’s not such a bad thing.

by Adam Allington
Sep 19, 2016
The number of seniors is growing — but that doesn't mean the economy is going to sink.
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Why a boring part of the market is going crazy, how Amazon ran away with the Emmys and where a pipeline leak can slow down a whole region. Plus: how do dollar stores outrun inflation?

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