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Would you rather work four 10-hour days a week?
Jun 4, 2019

Would you rather work four 10-hour days a week?

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Plus: Why the Fed is so chatty lately and why conference room air could be making you dumber.

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What a former Wall Street trader found exploring "back row America"

by Daniel Shin
Jun 4, 2019
Chris Arnade went in search of an economic reality different to the one he knew.
© 2019 Chris Arnade
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What if we shortened the workweek?

by Tracey Samuelson
Jun 4, 2019
The five-day workweek is ingrained in American culture.
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Workplace Culture

Office air quality could be dumbing down workers

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Jun 4, 2019
If only we could open those floor-to-ceiling windows.
Employees work in an office in Moscow in 2014.
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Buy spray cheese with food stamps? White House wants to make it possible

by Renata Sago
Jun 4, 2019
Proponents argue the change will allow more stores to accept SNAP benefits. Critics say it's an incentive to stock less healthy food.
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Will India be Trump's next trade war target?

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Jun 4, 2019
Following tariffs on China and Mexico, India's change in trading status change makes it look like a multi-front trade war.
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The Fed was unusually chatty Tuesday

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 4, 2019
Five public speeches? Even for increasingly communicative central bankers, that's a lot.
Fed chair Jerome Powell speaks during a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on June 4.
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Music from the episode

Burn the Witch Radiohead
Antenna Bonobo
Nada Mellah
Music Save Me (One More Time) Mocky
Mermaid In Heaven The Neptunes
Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus) Mark Ronson, Miley Cyrus

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer
Maria Hollenhorst Producer II
Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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