Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bessie with my friend and colleague Gene Marks, small business columnist,

and we're now looking at the challenges of small business that are quite separate from the macro positions of the

national economy. First there's a new idea that's an old idea. Buy now pay later.

It feels like I'm back to the 1950s here. I haven't been

paying attention but now and again gene on Amazon they offer me this option and

I say what's this all about? How is doing is it a better idea or is it is it's

there some trick to it because back in the 50s before there were credit cards it was you

pay you know a few dollars each week and you can have that

sofa. Yeah you know when we were kids they used to call them dungarets and now they call

them jeans you know I mean there you know, they used to be called

glasses, now they're called specs. I mean, you know, different names for the same

thing. Buy now pay later is is a layaway plan, you know, and you go to buy a larger ticket item, maybe some furniture or something, and

maybe you don't have a credit card available or you don't want to use your credit card.

You can actually use these buy now pay later services like you said

Amazon provides it one of the leaders is Klarna you know there are others that are

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