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Wholesale Market Highlights Real-Life Economics

by Adam Davidson, NPR
November 25, 2009

Hunts Point in Bronx, N.Y., is the largest wholesale food market in the country. The action there happens late at night. The ebb and flow at the market, who's buying when, and at what price, are a real-life economics lesson compressed into a single night.

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  • All Things Considered, November 25, 2009
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