So, figured out a way to pitch this?

We know books aren't exactly a new medium.

You know, a friend of mine once told me about a deeper bond with the product.

Nostalgia.

It's delicate but potent.

Sure, but let's not overthink this.

He told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.

It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.

Books aren't a spaceship, but a time mission.

Spaceships, listen, why don't we just tell listeners straight that it is called the Planet Money Book?

It has a collection of some of our favorite stories with updates and tons of new original recording.

Plus, it's available in bookstores now.

Wouldn't that home again? To a place we know we are loved.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

My friend and colleague, Bobby Allen, has been covering the banana and his growth of

prediction markets for NPR.

You know, the ones where you can bet on everything from Taylor Swift's wedding date

to the war in Iran.

And Bobby says this craze has kind of come out of nowhere.

Like a few years ago, when the CEO of one of the biggest prediction markets in the world reached out to Bobby. Like, hey, FYI, might be worth, like, incorporating some Kalshi prediction markets into your coverage. And I was like, a prediction what? Like, Kaushi, isn't that a cereal? The first thing that made Bobby think, wait, this may be a really big deal, happened last December.

First, he saw Kalshi was partnering with CNN, meaning that CNN would be telling people the news

and also telling them what people were betting on that news.

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