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Speaker 1: You ambushed me into an assignment?

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Speaker 2: I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith.

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Speaker 3: I'm Max Chafkin.

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Speaker 2: We are both journalists at Bloomberg Businessweek.

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Speaker 4: And our podcast, Everybody's Business, finds the meanings behind the numbers.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Like, why is ice cream so expensive now?

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Speaker 5: There is currently ongoing ice cream inflation as we speak.

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Speaker 5: That is absolutely a thing.

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Speaker 3: Is polymarket the new stock market? The source of prediction

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Speaker 3: markets is the U.S.

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Speaker 2: Government.

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Speaker 3: The U.S.

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Speaker 6: Government decides they're going to see if people can bet

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Speaker 6: on terrorism.

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Speaker 2: And Max, will we ever retire or will we be

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Speaker 2: doing this podcast forever?

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Speaker 1: Saving is hard. And if you're going to choose between

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Speaker 1: buying your kid's shoes today or putting that money away

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Speaker 1: for the future, you might buy the kid the shoes

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Speaker 1: because the kid needs shoes.

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Speaker 4: Because decoding the money, power and influence that moves the

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Speaker 4: world is everybody's business.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts

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Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.