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Author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Formerly @planetmoney. Now I host What's Your Problem and Business History.
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How we got free agents in baseball Original

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By Jacob Goldstein , Robert Smith , Keith Romer 
| NPR
Curt Flood and the birth of free agency : Planet Money Curt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game’s highest paid players. He took the St. Louis Cardinals to the World Series three times. Then he got traded to the Phillies. He didn’t want to go. But baseball’s rules said he had no say in the decision. He could either go to Philly or quit the sport. Instead, Flood took Major League Baseball to court.
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What Spirit Airlines’ rise and fall tells us about the future of cheap flights

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By Greg Rosalsky , Jacob Goldstein , Zoe Chace , Alex Goldmark , Emma Peaslee 
| NPR
Spirit Airlines, bankruptcy, bailouts, and the future of cheap flights : Planet Money It’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to muse about “buying” them.
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When CEO pay exploded (update)

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By Jacob Goldstein , Stacey Vanek Smith , Alex Goldmark 
| WRVO-FM (Oswego, NY)
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Stacey Vanek Smith is the co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. She's also a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics.
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