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  Who benefits when Taylor $wift meets Travis Kel¢e?

  Vox - Emily Stewart

  The NFL (Taylor’s version) is extremely good for business. Whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are a match made in heaven, Taylor Swift and the NFL certainly are, commercially speaking. As Swift makes appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games and rumors swirl that the pop star is dating the …

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  The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity

  Vox - Ian Millhiser

  Justices considering a case against the CFPB seem unlikely to trigger a second Great Depression. Imagine that the Supreme Court of the United States spent an entire morning debating whether penguins are the primary cause of colon cancer or whether John F. Kennedy was assassinated by aliens from the …

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  Why your $7 latte is $7

  Vox - Emily Stewart

  Your expensive coffee habit is indeed getting even more expensive. That Pumpkin Spice Latte is going to cost you a pretty penny this fall. If you are a connoisseur of fancy coffee and fancy coffee shops (or even just fancy-ish), you’ve probably noticed that the price of your favorite drink is higher …

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  5 new books (and one very old one) to read in order to understand capitalism

  Vox - Noel King

  Today, Explained looks at how Americans lost faith in capitalism — and whether we can get it back. My interest in capitalism began with an observation. I worked as an economics reporter for six years, from 2013 to 2019, for some of the biggest radio shows in the US. In that time, I never once used …

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  Dumb Money and what actually happened with GameStop, explained

  Vox - Emily Stewart

  Wait, were the short sellers right about GameStop? This is the type of simple story I’d love to be able to tell about GameStop: In early 2021, a ragtag group of everyday traders, led by a Massachusetts dad going by — depending on your social media platform — Roaring Kitty or DeepFuckingValue, took …

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  The prices hospitals post online can be wildly different than what they tell patients over the phone

  Vox - Dylan Scott

  University of Texas researchers, with help from Mark Cuban, find price transparency still has a long way to go. When Dr. Peter Cram, the University of Texas Medical Branch’s chair of internal medicine, heard billionaire Mark Cuban bemoaning how difficult it is to figure out the cost of routine …