When a crowd with money on the line saw something coming before the headlines, or got it spectacularly wrong.
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Effective Date
Every big market surprise was sitting in a public document weeks before it was news. Each episode of Effective Date follows one obscure rule change, whether a waiver, a comment letter or a quiet effective date, from the petition that started it to the morning it hit, and to the people, companies and prices it moved before anyone noticed. One host tells the story from the ground. The other reads the actual fine print aloud and translates it.
Hosted by Maren and Abe, performed by synthetic voices. Verified to the FactUnion Standard. Sources are in every episode's notes.
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Episodes
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The Refund Clock: You Won. Now Prove You Were on Time.
The Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs, but for shipments whose customs entries had already closed, getting the money back turned on a 180-day clock and on whether you had sued.
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