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This is Planet Money from NPR.
We here at Planet Money are firm believers in the saying, there's no such thing as a dumb question.
Because even the most simple questions can lead to incredibly intricate answers that reveal how the economy works.
So we get especially excited when y'all come to us with questions that you feel
like you should already know the answers to.
Like the other day, we got a question from a listener named Valerie Berecki,
who at first did n't even want us mentioning her name.
Have a lot of friends that listen to NPR, specifically Planet Money.
And I think it 's embarrassing when you do n't know the answer to what should be a basic question
every American should know, in my opinion.
That is not true at all.
That's like my whole job is to not know the answers to questions and then figure them out.
I don't know.
Luckily, Valerie got over it.