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490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?

Freakonomics Radio

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Are We All Capable of Some Kind of Superstitious Belief?

Economist Peter leeson says he doesn't believe in magic or superstition. He does remember a curse associated with raising a glass of water on an airplane ride. Leeson: Under the right circumstances, we're all capable of some kind of superstitious belief. Coming up next time on fr economics radio, one city in the us is growing so fast that it's been declared the model city for 20 first century America.

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