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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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Premium and affordable products are having a moment

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By Robert Smith , Adrian Ma , Corey Bridges, Kate Concannon 
| NPR
Premium and affordable products are having a moment : The Indicator from Planet Money It’s the Beigie awards! Our less than ten times a year salute to the art and science of telling stories about the economy. Today on the show, Kevin Dancy, vice president and regional executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, lays out a worrying consumer trend that’s affecting how retailers do business. Come see Planet Money live on stage! 12 cities.
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Hawaiʻi’s worker shortage goes NUTS

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By Robert Smith , Wailin Wong , Cooper McKim , Julia Ritchey 
| Bytemarks Café (Podcast)
Macadamia nuts. Labor shortages. Volcanoes. All that might sound like econ Mad Libs, but they’re all connected to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s entry into the Beige Book this month: labor shortages are hurting macadamia nut harvests in Hawaiʻi. On today’s show, we take a vacation and talk to someone on the Big Island who runs a macadamia nut farm.
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