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#325: Housing, Weddings, Space, Bacon

#325: Housing, Weddings, Space, Bacon

Planet Money vor 14 Jahren

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For today's show, we've collected four Planet Money radio stories that never made it to the podcast. Think of it as an early Thanksgiving buffet:What A Coin Toss Has To Do With The Housing Market — A simple experiment helps explain why there's still a glut of houses for sale, five years after the housing bubble popped.Why Are Wedding Dresses So Expensive? — A better question, according to one economist: Why are brides willing to pay so much?Requiem For Pork Bellies — The life and death of pork-belly futures, explained by a trader in Chicago's meat pit.Spaceflight Is Getting Cheaper. But It's Still Not Cheap Enough. -- Elon Musk wants us to live in other planets. First he has to make space flight affordable. So he took the fortune he made in Internet start-ups and started his own rocket company.