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Planet Money

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We try to fix election polling (update) 2026-10-21 · 30m
Anatomy of a movie market 2026-10-16 · 32m
Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help. 2026-10-14 · 29m
Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now? 2026-10-09 · 30m
Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam) 2026-10-07 · 26m
Where all those weird new drinks are coming from 2026-10-02 · 30m
Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security? 2026-09-30 · 29m
Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs 2026-09-25 · 31m
Is our national debt finally too much? (update) 2026-09-23 · 30m
The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything 2026-09-18 · 32m
How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators) 2026-09-16 · 18m
The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis 2026-09-11 · 29m
Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation 2026-09-09 · 24m
Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake 2026-09-05 · 25m
Love in the time of Palantir 2026-09-02 · 26m
Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus) 2026-08-30 · 23m
Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified" 2026-08-28 · 34m
The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) 2026-08-26 · 41m Open
Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers 2026-08-21 · 38m
Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School) 2026-08-19 · 40m
You bet your life insurance 2026-08-14 · 39m
Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) 2026-08-12 · 39m
Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? 2026-08-07 · 34m
Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School) 2026-08-05 · 40m
What makes a toy go viral 2026-07-31 · 26m
How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School) 2026-07-29 · 39m
Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) 2026-07-24 · 39m
Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine 2026-07-22 · 26m
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast 2026-07-21 · 3m
Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.? 2026-07-17 · 26m
Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour) 2026-07-15 · 39m
Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal 2026-07-10 · 26m
Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) 2026-07-08 · 37m
How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory) 2026-07-03 · 18m
Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? 2026-07-01 · 29m
We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail? 2026-06-26 · 27m
Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets 2026-06-24 · 23m
The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough 2026-06-19 · 33m
Can computer hackers get inside your mind? 2026-06-17 · 30m
It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down? 2026-06-12 · 25m
Two indicators for lowering the rent 2026-06-10 · 18m
Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? 2026-06-05 · 35m
There's no business like dough business 2026-06-03 · 27m
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food 2026-05-29 · 36m
The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes 2026-05-27 · 26m
The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake 2026-05-22 · 27m
Vacation and why Americans take so little 2026-05-20 · 25m
Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence 2026-05-15 · 29m
The secret meeting that launched OPEC 2026-05-13 · 28m
Diary of a WNBA negotiator 2026-05-09 · 29m
How we got free agents in baseball 2026-05-06 · 29m
How to make a BOOK into a bestseller 2026-05-02 · 47m
Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights 2026-04-29 · 26m
Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China 2026-04-24 · 34m
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs 2026-04-22 · 30m
Do prediction market bettors make anything better? 2026-04-18 · 32m
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz 2026-04-14 · 19m
BOOKstore Economics 2026-04-10 · 41m
A pro-worker experiment in private equity 2026-04-08 · 26m
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation 2026-04-04 · 34m
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment 2026-04-02 · 28m
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop 2026-03-28 · 22m
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain 2026-03-26 · 47m
Inside a BOOK auction 2026-03-21 · 43m
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon 2026-03-18 · 33m
Chef vs. Robot 2026-03-13 · 26m
The laws of the office revisited 2026-03-11 · 30m
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem 2026-03-06 · 30m
The Business of Heated Rivalry 2026-03-04 · 28m
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game 2026-02-27 · 36m
The ICE hiring boom 2026-02-25 · 18m
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? 2026-02-21 · 26m
How to get what Greenland has, with permission 2026-02-18 · 27m
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines 2026-02-13 · 32m
The Invention Invention 2026-02-11 · 31m
Iran, protests, and sanctions 2026-02-07 · 33m
Riding with the repo man (update) 2026-02-04 · 29m
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable? 2026-01-31 · 28m
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? 2026-01-28 · 28m
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch 2026-01-24 · 32m
When designing a GAME, what's in a name? 2026-01-22 · 36m
Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty 2026-01-17 · 33m
How much money President Trump and his family have made 2026-01-14 · 31m
So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for. 2026-01-10 · 25m
How Black hair care grew Black power 2026-01-07 · 29m
Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) 2026-01-04 · 22m
Indicators of the Year, Past and Future 2025-12-31 · 18m
Why economists got free trade with China so wrong 2025-12-30 · 26m
The Rest of the Story, 2025 2025-12-26 · 28m
The summer I turned binge-y 2025-12-24 · 31m
What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill 2025-12-20 · 32m
PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition 2025-12-17 · 55m
When Chicago pawned its parking meters 2025-12-12 · 31m
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear 2025-12-10 · 36m
How hurricanes became a hot investment 2025-12-05 · 31m
Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) 2025-12-03 · 19m
Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) 2025-11-28 · 25m
Saving lives with fewer dollars 2025-11-27 · 33m
The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle 2025-11-21 · 20m
Days of our Tariffs 2025-11-19 · 30m
The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina 2025-11-15 · 29m
Buy now, pay dearly? (update) 2025-11-12 · 25m
A new experiment in remote work … from the inside 2025-11-07 · 28m
Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) 2025-11-05 · 18m
After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble 2025-11-01 · 30m
The remittance mystery 2025-10-30 · 28m
Should the fine have to fit the crime? 2025-10-24 · 26m
TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy 2025-10-22 · 25m
How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions 2025-10-17 · 31m
The year NYC went broke 2025-10-15 · 32m
How the government got hedge funded 2025-10-10 · 28m
Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) 2025-10-08 · 20m
How to design an economics GAME 2025-10-04 · 36m
We're making a GAME 2025-10-01 · 32m
How refrigeration took over the world 2025-09-26 · 23m
How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled 2025-09-24 · 29m
In Gaza, money is falling apart 2025-09-20 · 35m
When CEO pay exploded (update) 2025-09-17 · 23m
The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. 2025-09-12 · 25m
Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? 2025-09-10 · 29m
What happens to central banks under pressure? 2025-09-06 · 26m
The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com 2025-09-03 · 21m
Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed 2025-08-29 · 23m
Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! 2025-08-27 · 31m
Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link 2025-08-22 · 32m
Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages 2025-08-20 · 39m
When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI 2025-08-15 · 32m
What happens when governments cook the books 2025-08-09 · 35m
Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer 2025-08-06 · 42m
Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry 2025-08-06 · 37m
Would you trust an economist with your economy? 2025-08-02 · 32m
Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? 2025-07-30 · 36m
The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel 2025-07-25 · 28m
Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on 2025-07-23 · 37m
Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? 2025-07-18 · 23m
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media 2025-07-18 · 2m
Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy 2025-07-16 · 37m
Made in America 2025-07-11 · 31m
Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer 2025-07-09 · 36m
The simple math of the big bill 2025-07-04 · 32m
A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem 2025-07-02 · 26m
When Trump met crypto 2025-06-27 · 32m
Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown 2025-06-25 · 39m
The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? 2025-06-20 · 28m
Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) 2025-06-19 · 30m
Why I joined DOGE 2025-06-14 · 27m
Are Trump's tariffs legal? 2025-06-11 · 25m
When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA 2025-06-06 · 31m
Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) 2025-06-04 · 18m
The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory 2025-05-30 · 28m
Why does the government fund research at universities? 2025-05-28 · 27m
The secret world behind those scammy text messages 2025-05-23 · 34m
How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming 2025-05-21 · 24m
The 145% tariff already did its damage 2025-05-16 · 27m
What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war 2025-05-14 · 26m
Is the reign of the dollar over? 2025-05-09 · 26m
What "Made in China" actually means 2025-05-07 · 27m
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet 2025-05-02 · 24m
Planet Money complains. To learn. 2025-04-30 · 26m
How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank 2025-04-26 · 31m
A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence 2025-04-23 · 20m
How much for that egg 2025-04-18 · 31m
OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government 2025-04-16 · 27m
Trade war dispatch from Canada 2025-04-11 · 26m
Do trade deficits matter? 2025-04-09 · 24m
How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries 2025-04-04 · 28m
Tariffs: What are they good for? 2025-04-02 · 23m
PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? 2025-03-28 · 37m
Planet Money buys a mystery diamond 2025-03-26 · 32m
Can we just change how we measure GDP? 2025-03-21 · 22m
Escheat show (Update) 2025-03-19 · 23m
How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring 2025-03-14 · 28m
The last time we shrank the federal workforce 2025-03-12 · 27m
How to start a bank 2025-03-07 · 26m
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin 2025-03-05 · 35m
The Memecoin Casino 2025-02-28 · 28m
The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers 2025-02-27 · 25m
The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management 2025-02-22 · 28m
Can the president override Congress on spending? 2025-02-19 · 22m
The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze 2025-02-14 · 26m
The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria 2025-02-11 · 23m
The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure 2025-02-07 · 23m
How the scratch off lottery changed America 2025-02-05 · 30m
How DeepSeek changed the market's mind 2025-02-01 · 27m
Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) 2025-01-29 · 18m
The "chilling effect" of deportations 2025-01-25 · 23m
After the fires 2025-01-23 · 25m
Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions 2025-01-17 · 28m
The Land of the Duty Free (classic) 2025-01-15 · 20m
The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes 2025-01-11 · 31m
ZIP Codes! 2025-01-08 · 28m
The potato-shaped loophole in free trade 2025-01-03 · 28m
If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? 2024-12-30 · 17m
The Rest of the Story, 2024 2024-12-27 · 28m
The Indicators of this year and next 2024-12-25 · 22m
The habitat banker 2024-12-20 · 33m
How sports gambling blew up 2024-12-18 · 30m
A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality 2024-12-14 · 28m
Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) 2024-12-11 · 27m
There Will Be Flood 2024-12-06 · 31m
George Soros vs. the Bank of England 2024-12-04 · 31m
How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? 2024-12-02 · 20m
Why you bought your couch 2024-11-27 · 26m
Title Pirates 2024-11-23 · 26m
The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) 2024-11-20 · 16m
The great German land lottery 2024-11-15 · 29m
The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made 2024-11-13 · 27m
What markets bet President Trump will do 2024-11-09 · 27m
Moving to the American dream? (update) 2024-11-06 · 24m
The veteran loan calamity 2024-11-01 · 37m
So your data was stolen in a data breach 2024-10-31 · 29m
Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? 2024-10-25 · 26m
Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators 2024-10-23 · 17m
The Subscription Trap 2024-10-18 · 31m
We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... 2024-10-16 · 21m
So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? 2024-10-11 · 26m
Can cap and trade work in the US? 2024-10-09 · 24m
What's up with all the ads for law firms? 2024-10-04 · 19m
How Venezuela imploded (update) 2024-10-02 · 23m
What's THAT got to do with economics? 2024-09-27 · 26m
Veep-onomics 2024-09-25 · 25m
How to save 10,000 fingers 2024-09-20 · 24m
Can money buy happiness? 2024-09-18 · 29m
99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses 2024-09-16 · 33m
Rate Expectations 2024-09-13 · 23m
Is AI overrated or underrated? 2024-09-11 · 19m
Summer camp capitalism 2024-09-06 · 34m
Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) 2024-09-04 · 29m
How to fix a housing shortage 2024-08-30 · 23m
Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more 2024-08-28 · 33m
The trade fraud detective 2024-08-23 · 27m
Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy 2024-08-21 · 35m
The hidden world behind your new "banking" app 2024-08-16 · 21m
Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich 2024-08-14 · 36m
Will the Olympics break breakdancing? 2024-08-09 · 26m
Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters 2024-08-07 · 37m
What to do when you're in a class action 2024-08-02 · 26m
Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar 2024-07-31 · 37m
Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life 2024-07-26 · 34m
What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like 2024-07-24 · 18m
The color monopoly 2024-07-20 · 22m
Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms 2024-07-17 · 33m
Rooftop solar's dark side 2024-07-12 · 27m
Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World 2024-07-10 · 34m
How flying got so bad (or did it?) 2024-07-05 · 25m
The two companies driving the modern economy 2024-07-03 · 20m
Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? 2024-06-29 · 26m
The Carriage Tax (Update) 2024-06-26 · 19m
The Vapes of Wrath 2024-06-21 · 27m
Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? 2024-06-19 · 28m
What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. 2024-06-14 · 24m
Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight 2024-06-12 · 26m
How much national debt is too much? 2024-06-07 · 27m
The history of light (classic) 2024-06-05 · 21m
How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells 2024-05-31 · 24m
So you've been scammed, now what? 2024-05-29 · 27m
The junkyard economist 2024-05-24 · 26m
Anatomy of a layoff 2024-05-22 · 28m
The hack that almost broke the internet 2024-05-17 · 25m
Why Gold? (Classic) 2024-05-15 · 19m
Zombie mortgages are coming back to life 2024-05-10 · 31m
Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) 2024-05-08 · 19m
The birth of the modern consumer movement 2024-05-03 · 21m
Hire Power (Update) 2024-05-01 · 23m
The case of the stolen masks 2024-04-26 · 19m
How unions are stopped before they start (Update) 2024-04-24 · 33m
FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy 2024-04-19 · 25m
Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) 2024-04-17 · 18m
TikTok made me deduct it 2024-04-12 · 20m
How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) 2024-04-10 · 18m
Japan's Lost Decades 2024-04-05 · 23m
The real estate industry on trial 2024-04-03 · 29m
How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine 2024-03-29 · 24m
The trouble with Table 101 (Update) 2024-03-27 · 25m
What is Temu? 2024-03-22 · 25m
How Big Steel in the U.S. fell 2024-03-20 · 22m
The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum 2024-03-15 · 23m
Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) 2024-03-13 · 17m
On the Oscars campaign trail 2024-03-08 · 26m
Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? 2024-03-06 · 26m
Shopping for parental benefits around the world 2024-03-01 · 30m
The secret world behind school fundraisers 2024-02-29 · 28m
A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics 2024-02-23 · 26m
Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry 2024-02-21 · 19m
How the Navy came to protect cargo ships 2024-02-16 · 20m
It's giving ... Valentines 2024-02-15 · 26m
A lawsuit for your broken heart 2024-02-09 · 22m
Morally questionable, economically efficient 2024-02-07 · 24m
Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed 2024-02-02 · 27m
The Chicken Tax (Classic) 2024-01-31 · 16m
Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! 2024-01-29 · 10m
Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune 2024-01-27 · 26m
Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas 2024-01-24 · 23m
Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation 2024-01-20 · 32m
Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators 2024-01-17 · 16m
The Maine Potato War of 1976 2024-01-13 · 24m
The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya 2024-01-10 · 24m
The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships 2024-01-05 · 26m
The Rest of the Story, 2023 2023-12-29 · 26m
The Indicators of this year and next 2023-12-27 · 16m
We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) 2023-12-22 · 32m
Dollarizing Argentina 2023-12-21 · 24m
How to be better at hybrid work, according to research 2023-12-19 · 15m
What econ says in the shadows 2023-12-16 · 26m
Why '90s ads are unforgettable 2023-12-14 · 27m
The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained 2023-12-11 · 14m
Why do doctors still use pagers? 2023-12-08 · 27m
Two food and drink indicators 2023-12-06 · 19m
Why are we so bummed about the economy? 2023-12-01 · 24m
So you want to sell marijuana across state lines 2023-11-29 · 24m
A very Planet Money Thanksgiving 2023-11-22 · 27m
Economic fact in literary fiction 2023-11-18 · 26m
China's real estate crisis, explained 2023-11-15 · 20m
The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT 2023-11-10 · 24m
Never have I ever 2023-11-08 · 29m
FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon 2023-11-03 · 30m
Antitrust in America (classic) 2023-11-01 · 40m
All you can eat economics 2023-10-27 · 25m
Cutting school... by 20% 2023-10-26 · 24m
How unions are stopped before they start 2023-10-20 · 28m
Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation 2023-10-18 · 18m
Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance 2023-10-13 · 27m
Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) 2023-10-11 · 19m
A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay 2023-10-06 · 23m
The flight attendants of CHAOS 2023-10-04 · 29m
A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions 2023-09-29 · 27m
The natural disaster economist 2023-09-27 · 24m
A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina 2023-09-23 · 24m
"Based on a true story" 2023-09-20 · 29m
How to launder $600 million on the internet 2023-09-16 · 26m
China's weakening economy in two Indicators 2023-09-13 · 19m
Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? 2023-09-08 · 23m
The prince of prints and his prints of Prince 2023-09-06 · 29m
How to fight a patent pirate 2023-09-01 · 25m
Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank 2023-08-30 · 32m
The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines 2023-08-26 · 22m
Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble 2023-08-23 · 34m
Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it 2023-08-18 · 25m
Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses 2023-08-16 · 32m
The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans 2023-08-11 · 27m
Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma 2023-08-09 · 34m
A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy 2023-08-04 · 26m
Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle 2023-08-02 · 33m
Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit 2023-07-31 · 18m
Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? 2023-07-28 · 26m
Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper 2023-07-26 · 33m
Planet Money Paper Club 2023-07-21 · 23m
Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker 2023-07-19 · 31m
Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet 2023-07-15 · 24m
Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school 2023-07-12 · 32m
The quest to save macroeconomics from itself 2023-07-07 · 19m
Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways 2023-07-05 · 20m
Supply, demand, extinction 2023-06-30 · 29m
Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie 2023-06-28 · 24m
Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police 2023-06-23 · 26m
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