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Cautionary Tales Presents: World's Greatest Con

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Stemple Wins Nine Thousand Dollars in a Lump Sum

In the first four minutes of the programme, stemple wins nine thousand dollars. He's all in on the belief that this is easy money and he is willing to bend the rules. The sponsor of 21 pharmacuticls ink furnish the show with a limited prize budget. If the total prize money for those 26 weeks is less than the money allotted, then it gets refunded to the sponsor. But if it's over that number, well, that comes out of bury and enright productions.

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