Sam Mertens checks on his chickens.
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Sam Mertens checks on his chickens.
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Not too long ago, considered one of our NPR colleagues wrote a message to all of NPR saying he had further eggs to promote for reasonable, however wanted a good method to distribute them throughout a scarcity. What’s Planet Cash right here for if to not get OVERLY concerned in this sort of state of affairs?
Our colleague did not need to cost greater than $5, so we could not simply public sale the eggs off. A lottery? Too boring, he stated.
Okay! A really Planet Cash puzzle to resolve.
As we speak on the present, we go searching for novel programs to assist our colleague determine who will get his scarce useful resource: low cost, farm-fresh eggs. We steal from the world of latest product improvement to attempt to secretly check for egg love, and we uncover a pricing technique utilized in improvement economics which may be America’s subsequent nice gameshow.
This episode of Planet Cash was produced by Emma Peaslee and it was edited by Marianne McCune. It was truth checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is our govt producer.
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Music: NPR Supply Audio – “Punchy Punchline,” “Recreation Face,” “Feeling the Funk,” and “The Host Most Wished”
