Planet Money

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