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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    'The Devil's Half Mile:' Murder-mystery based on America's first financial crisis

    It’s been a decade since the 2008 financial crisis, but many are still feeling the effects. Financial journalist Paddy Hirsch understands how the market imploded back then better than most.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 5, 2018 • 1 min read

    It’s been a decade since the 2008 financial crisis, but many are still feeling the effects. Financial journalist Paddy Hirsch understands how the market imploded back then better than most. In 2007, he started working as for public radio’s business show Marketplace. Now he’s out with a new novel based on the nation’s very first financial meltdown. It happened in New York in 1792, and it gave rise to Wall Street.

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    How much pain can the human brain handle?
    1. 0:00Scott Pruitt is out as head of the EPA
    2. 9:21The neuroscience behind how much pain we can handle
    3. 19:00'The Devil's Half Mile:' Murder-mystery based on America's first financial crisisYou’re reading this
    4. 34:23Nell Painter on being 'old' in art school
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