The most expensive banana in the world and other indicators

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A journalist taking a picture of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana, which just sold for $6.2 million.

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A journalist taking a picture of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana, which just sold for $6.2 million.

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We are back with a pricey Indicators of the Week. Today, we’re digging into why it’s so hard to get price information from funeral providers, how much a single banana could possibly cost, and just how much richer Elon Musk has become since Donald Trump’s election win.

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