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Introducing “The Economics of Everyday Things”

Freakonomics Radio

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*Rockets and feathers *

The price of oil can go up and down like a rocket and the price of gasoline comes down like a feather./nThis is frustrating for consumers./nOne way to explain it is that consumers are not getting the full price run up and they're paying for it on the way back down.

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