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How We Made the Wrong Things Cheap

November 2, 2026 · 52 min

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Since 2000, TVs have gotten 98% cheaper while hospital stays, college tuition and child care have more than doubled. Here's how that happened, and why so many Americans now think the economy is rigged against them.

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