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432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

Freakonomics Radio

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The Hidden Side of Everything

In two thousand seven, the taliband kidnapped twenty one south korean missionaries in afghanistan. A lawsuit brought by the families of u s soldiers killed by the talaban says the companies who pay protection money are in part responsible for those deaths. The threat of kidnapping in conflict zones explains why most fortune five hundred companies buy kidnap insurance....

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