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Hello dear listeners it is Tim Harford here with an exciting idea up my sleeve.

I want to know if you'd be interested in joining a cautionary club with additional

member only content. And with that in mind, the Cautionary Tales team and I have put together a survey.

We'd like to find out exactly what kind of content you're keen to get your hands on.

Would you like a cautionary newsletter? Perhaps some extra conversations, like my last one with Adam

Grant, or maybe you have another idea for us altogether. The link is in the episode description and it will take you just a few short minutes to answer.

So please do take a moment to fill it out and let us know your thoughts.

We are really keen to hear from you. Thank you. The 2024 election is upon us and the

stakes couldn't be higher, but the outcome might not be clear till long

after everyone has voted. If the race ends up being as close as it looks right now, we could be in for a repeat or worse of the year 2000.

When the presidency came down to a recount in Florida that ended at the Supreme Court.

To hear the whole story, check out Viasco Bush v. Gore, a

podcast from the co-creators of Slow Burn.

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you was into podcasts.

Hello, I have a frighteningly good episode of cautionary tales for you this

Halloween. It was recorded in front of a live audience at the podcast show in

London and I shared the stage with actors and our sound supremo Pascal Wise who not only created grisly sound effects by hand, but played the trombone too.

I hope you enjoy this nightmarish marriage of true crime and economics. October 31st, Halloween, in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828.

A short, middle-aged woman walks into a bar where a man sits drinking. She asks the barkeeper.

Can you help me? I've come to Edinburgh to see my son, he's working here, but when I went to

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