A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions

Planet Money

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Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ba-dee-yah! Say do you remember? Ba-dee-yah! Questions in September!

That's right - it's time for Listener Questions!

Every so often, we like to hear from listeners about what's on their minds, and we try to get to the bottom of their economic mysteries. On today's show, we have questions like:

Why is September historically the worst month for the stock market?
How did the Bass Pro Shops hat get so popular in Ecuador?
Are casinos banks?
What is the Federal Reserve's new plan to make bank transfers faster?

Today's show was hosted by Sarah Gonzalez and produced by James Sneed. The audio engineer for this episode was Josephine Nyounai. It was fact checked by Sierra Juarez and edited by Dave Blanchard. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

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0:18.9	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:24.9	So hi, nice to meet you.
0:26.2	Hi, good to meet you as well.
0:27.9	I'm Sarah, by the way.
0:29.1	I know, I think I've listened to every single episode I believe.
0:33.3	This is Planet Money listener Justin Yeager.
0:36.6	I'm not saying I'm a super fan, but yeah, anyway.
0:39.7	You got to live his honesty.
0:41.2	And the other day, Justin emailed us
0:43.2	because he had been noticing this thing
0:45.4	that he thought was kind of strange.
0:47.2	He's a professor at a college in Keto, Ecuador.
0:50.3	And in the very first kind of classes,
0:52.9	I noticed a lot of bass pro hats.
0:55.6	Bass pro shop hats.
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