The battle for the Dungeons & Dragons economy

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A special game license allowed Dungeons & Dragons fans to create additional storylines and characters — and make money off of them. But when parent company Hasbro looked to change D&D’s license to get a cut of third-party profits, fans fought to protect the role-playing game community and economy. Plus, in the Weekly Wrap, the specter of layoffs and legislation aimed at boosting teacher pay.

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0:00.0	On the program today, what happened this week in this economy and one thing that didn't?
0:09.5	From American public media, this is Marketplace.
0:22.8	In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizal.
0:24.7	It is Friday today.
0:26.0	This one is the third day of March.
0:28.1	It is always to have you along.
0:30.0	Everybody, lots to dig into this week.
0:31.5	So we are just going to do that dig right in.
0:33.8	Lynette Lopez is at Business Insider.
0:35.8	Heather Long is at the Washington Post.
0:38.2	Hey, you too.
0:39.4	Hi.
0:40.4	So let me start Heather with you.
0:42.9	And I want to go back over a couple of things that Secretary Yellen said yesterday when
0:47.2	I was talking to her.
0:48.2	First of all, her overall demeanor, her overall tone about this economy struck me as remarkably
0:55.2	confident and hopeful.
0:56.8	Do you agree?
0:59.4	I liked your phrase hopeful.
1:01.4	I think she characterized it well that overall this seems a bit like a too good to be true economy,
1:07.5	but she kept telling you that the evidence so far supports it.
1:11.8	It supports the hopeful outlook.
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