Planet Money

1. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
2. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
3. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
4. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
5. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
6. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
7. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
8. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
9. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
10. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
11. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
12. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
13. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
14. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
15. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
16. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
17. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
18. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
19. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
20. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
21. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
22. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
23. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
24. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-13)
25. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
26. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
27. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
28. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
29. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
30. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
31. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
32. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
33. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
34. Made in America (2025-07-12)
35. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
36. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
37. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
38. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
39. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
40. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
41. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
42. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
43. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
44. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
45. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
46. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
47. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
48. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
49. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
50. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
51. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
52. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
53. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
54. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
55. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
56. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
57. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
58. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
59. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
60. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
61. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
62. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
63. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
64. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
65. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
66. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
67. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
68. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
69. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
70. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
71. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
72. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
73. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
74. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
75. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
76. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
77. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
78. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
79. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
80. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
81. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
82. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
83. After the fires (2025-01-23)
84. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
85. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
86. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
87. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
88. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
89. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
90. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
91. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
92. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
93. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
94. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
95. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
96. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
97. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
98. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
99. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
100. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
101. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
102. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
103. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
104. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
105. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
106. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
107. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
108. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
109. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
110. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
111. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
112. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
113. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
114. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
115. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
116. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
117. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
118. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
119. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
120. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
121. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
122. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
123. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
124. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
125. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
126. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
127. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
128. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
129. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
130. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
131. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
132. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
133. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
134. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
135. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
136. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
137. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
138. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
139. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
140. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
141. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
142. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
143. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
144. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
145. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
146. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
147. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
148. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
149. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
150. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
151. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
152. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
153. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
154. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
155. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
156. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
157. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
158. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
159. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
160. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
161. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
162. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
163. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
164. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
165. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
166. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
167. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
168. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
169. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
170. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
171. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
172. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
173. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
174. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
175. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
176. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
177. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
178. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
179. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
180. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
181. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
182. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
183. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
184. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
185. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
186. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
187. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
188. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
189. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
190. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
191. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
192. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
193. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
194. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
195. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
196. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
197. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
198. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
199. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
200. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
201. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
202. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
203. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
204. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
205. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
206. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
207. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
208. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
209. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
210. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
211. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
212. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
213. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
214. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
215. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
216. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
217. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
218. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
219. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
220. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
221. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
222. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
223. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
224. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
225. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
226. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
227. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
228. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
229. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
230. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
231. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
232. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
233. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
234. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
235. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
236. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
237. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
238. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
239. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
240. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
241. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
242. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
243. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
244. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
245. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
246. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
247. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
248. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
249. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
250. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
251. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
252. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
253. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
254. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
255. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
256. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
257. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
258. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
259. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
260. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
261. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
262. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
263. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
264. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
265. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
266. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
267. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
268. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
269. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
270. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
271. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
272. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
273. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
274. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
275. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
276. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
277. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
278. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
279. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
280. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
281. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
282. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
283. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
284. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
285. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
286. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
287. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
288. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
289. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
290. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
291. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
292. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
293. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
294. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
295. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
296. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
297. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
298. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
299. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
300. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
301. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
302. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
303. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
304. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
305. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
306. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
307. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
308. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
309. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
310. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
311. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
312. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
313. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
314. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
315. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
316. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
317. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
318. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
319. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
320. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
321. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
322. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
323. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
324. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
325. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
326. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
327. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
328. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
329. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
330. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
331. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
332. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
333. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
334. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
335. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)
336. SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks (2022-08-25)
337. Inflation Reduction Actually (2022-08-20)
338. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life (2022-08-18)
339. Carried interest wormhole (2022-08-13)
340. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market (2022-08-11)
341. A new way to pay for college (Update) (2022-08-05)
342. SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies (2022-08-04)
343. We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical (2022-08-01)
344. Two recession Indicators (2022-07-29)
345. SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us (2022-07-28)
346. Little House on the Blockchain (2022-07-23)
347. SUMMER SCHOOL 2: GDP & What Counts (2022-07-21)
348. Best by, sell by, use by (2022-07-16)
349. SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles (2022-07-14)
350. A tale of two cityhoods (2022-07-09)
351. Two crypto crash Indicators (2022-07-06)
352. Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United (2022-07-02)
353. When Subaru came out (Classic) (2022-06-30)
354. Recession referees (2022-06-25)
355. The tale of the Onion King (Update) (2022-06-23)