Elizabeth Kulas
Elizabeth Kulas is a producer on Planet Money. Before that, she produced shows at WNYC, Gimlet and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2016, she was part of the NPR team that reported on the Wells Fargo banking scandal. That reporting won a George Foster Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Before falling in love with making audio, she studied Art History and German, with a focus on life in the former East Germany. She graduated from The University of Melbourne in her native Australia, with stints at Barnard College, New York and Berlin's Free University. Right now, she's entirely obsessed with space.
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The next round of trade barriers with China could include a 25 percent levy on Chinese antiquities. One dealer went to Washington to tell Congress why that tariff could hurt our allies and ourselves.
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Matt Groening's animated Netflix series Disenchantmentfollows the hard-drinking princess of Dreamland. But the premise isn't the only new thing he's trying out on this show.
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The U.S. has been renegotiating trade deals and putting tariffs on different goods. Meanwhile, other countries are re-negotiating their trade agreements and some deals are leaving U.S. producers out.
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We investigate the economic mystery of how a movie pass for $10 a month can offer daily movies at just about any theater.
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When paper money gets mangled, ripped or ruined it is still money, backed by the U.S. government. We visit the room where mutilated money is painstakingly put back together.
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Between 2003 and 2010, a dairy industry group paid farmers to get out of the dairy game. They were trying to raise milk prices, but it meant slaughtering a lot of cows. An animal rights group was not happy, so they decided to sue on behalf of milk consumers. Now, if you bought milk in some states since 2003, you might be eligible for a payout.
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Younger people go to casinos, but they don't like to gamble as much. Some casinos are testing slot machines that are more like video games — but these new machines still have some kinks to work out.