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The Gist

Is America Really Flirting With Civil War?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Civil wars are anything but spontaneous, and though they are often decades in the making, they remain challenging to identify before they explode into violence. We interview Barbara F Walter, a world renown expert on political violence and what it portends about her new book How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them, in hopes of answering a dark question: How close is the U.S. to civil war? Also, we wonder how effective protests around the world will be. And why we pay more for products with "9"s in their prices. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I did just hear a report about consumer spending, which prompted me to take more action than

1:02.6

any two-for-one deal at participating best buys. By the way, best by the way. When best buy

1:09.6

has a sale, aren't they subtly admitting that the item before it went on sale wasn't the

1:15.5

best buy? In other words, who would do business with a bunch of established liers? They're

1:21.4

lying and continue to lie. I trust nobody beats the Wiz to this day. Nobody beats them.

1:27.6

No wiggle room there. Nobody beats the Wiz for all your six disc CD-changer needs.

1:33.6

But anyway, here's the study that I was talking about. It's reported by the Wall Street Journal's

1:39.0

Josh Zumbron. It's $9.99. If you're looking at the last four digits, it's $9.99.99. That's

1:46.4

why you see all these higher price electronics that are priced at $99.99.

1:51.5

And the takeaway that the researchers have studying this is that the more

1:57.2

nines you see, actually probably the worse of a deal it is.

2:01.2

Daniel Levy, an economics professor at both Emory University and Israel's Bar Alon University,

2:06.7

performed a study, the results of which were the price ends in nine.

2:12.3

U-David, it could be a rip-off quote based on years of data from American grocery stores.

2:19.1

When items prices ended in nine, they were on average 18% higher than when those same item prices

2:26.8

had different endings. So an item that was $3.99 is 18% higher than if it were $3.98. No,

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