668. Do Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny Have Blood on Their Hands?

Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner with a quick announcement. We have just published an audiobook called Making Messiah, how Handel got his mojo back and created a masterpiece. The publisher is Simon <unk> Schuster, and the audiobook is adapted from our recent Freekonomics radio series. about the history, legacy, and economics of George Frederick Handel's Messiah. You can buy Making Messiah now wherever you get your audiobooks.

For more information, go to makingmessiah.com. Over the years, we've made a bunch of Free economics radio episodes about the risk that comes with an activity that billions of us do every day. Get in a car. Those risks have fallen over time, but because more people drive more miles than ever, the number of deaths from traffic crashes is very high, more than a million people per year globally. And that's just deaths.

There are many more injuries and the financial costs are massive. Traffic deaths are more likely in low-income countries, but among high-income countries, the US is an outlier with more than 40,000 deaths per year. a year. That works out to roughly one death by car crash every 13 minutes in the US. Why so many?

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