Planet Money

1. The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes (2026-05-27)
2. The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake (2026-05-23)
3. Vacation and why Americans take so little (2026-05-20)
4. Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence (2026-05-15)
5. The secret meeting that launched OPEC (2026-05-14)
6. Diary of a WNBA negotiator (2026-05-09)
7. How we got free agents in baseball (2026-05-06)
8. How to make a BOOK into a bestseller (2026-05-02)
9. Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights (2026-04-29)
10. Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China (2026-04-24)
11. Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs (2026-04-22)
12. Do prediction market bettors make anything better? (2026-04-18)
13. How to get through the Strait of Hormuz (2026-04-15)
14. BOOKstore Economics (2026-04-11)
15. A pro-worker experiment in private equity (2026-04-08)
16. Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation (2026-04-04)
17. Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment (2026-04-02)
18. The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop (2026-03-28)
19. Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain (2026-03-26)
20. Inside a BOOK auction (2026-03-21)
21. The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon (2026-03-18)
22. Chef vs. Robot (2026-03-13)
23. The laws of the office revisited (2026-03-11)
24. Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem (2026-03-06)
25. The Business of Heated Rivalry (2026-03-04)
26. Don't hate the replicator, hate the game (2026-02-27)
27. The ICE hiring boom (2026-02-25)
28. The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? (2026-02-21)
29. How to get what Greenland has, with permission (2026-02-18)
30. Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines (2026-02-14)
31. The Invention Invention (2026-02-11)
32. Iran, protests, and sanctions (2026-02-07)
33. Riding with the repo man (update) (2026-02-04)
34. Can Trump make buying a home more affordable? (2026-01-31)
35. Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? (2026-01-28)
36. A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch (2026-01-24)
37. BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name? (2026-01-22)
38. Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty (2026-01-17)
39. How much money President Trump and his family have made (2026-01-14)
40. So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for. (2026-01-10)
41. How Black hair care grew Black power (2026-01-07)
42. Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) (2026-01-04)
43. Indicators of the Year, Past and Future (2025-12-31)
44. Why economists got free trade with China so wrong (2025-12-30)
45. The Rest of the Story, 2025 (2025-12-26)
46. The summer I turned binge-y (2025-12-24)
47. What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill (2025-12-20)
48. PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition (2025-12-17)
49. When Chicago pawned its parking meters (2025-12-13)
50. Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear (2025-12-10)
51. How hurricanes became a hot investment (2025-12-06)
52. Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) (2025-12-03)
53. Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) (2025-11-28)
54. Saving lives with fewer dollars (2025-11-27)
55. The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle (2025-11-21)
56. Days of our Tariffs (2025-11-19)
57. The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina (2025-11-15)
58. Buy now, pay dearly? (update) (2025-11-12)
59. A new experiment in remote work … from the inside (2025-11-07)
60. Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) (2025-11-05)
61. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
62. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
63. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
64. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
65. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
66. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
67. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
68. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
69. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
70. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
71. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
72. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
73. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
74. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
75. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
76. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
77. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
78. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
79. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
80. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
81. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
82. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
83. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
84. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
85. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-06)
86. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
87. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
88. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
89. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
90. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
91. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
92. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
93. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
94. Made in America (2025-07-12)
95. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
96. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
97. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
98. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
99. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
100. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
101. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
102. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
103. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
104. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
105. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
106. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
107. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
108. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
109. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
110. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
111. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
112. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
113. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
114. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
115. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
116. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
117. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
118. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
119. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
120. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
121. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
122. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
123. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
124. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
125. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
126. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
127. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
128. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
129. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
130. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
131. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
132. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
133. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
134. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
135. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
136. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
137. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
138. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
139. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
140. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
141. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
142. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
143. After the fires (2025-01-23)
144. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
145. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
146. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
147. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
148. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
149. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
150. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
151. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
152. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
153. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
154. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
155. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
156. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
157. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
158. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
159. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
160. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
161. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
162. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
163. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
164. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
165. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
166. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
167. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
168. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
169. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
170. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
171. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
172. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
173. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
174. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
175. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
176. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
177. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
178. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
179. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
180. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
181. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
182. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
183. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
184. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
185. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
186. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
187. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
188. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
189. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
190. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
191. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
192. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
193. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
194. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
195. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
196. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
197. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
198. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
199. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
200. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
201. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
202. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
203. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
204. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
205. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
206. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
207. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
208. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
209. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
210. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
211. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
212. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
213. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
214. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
215. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
216. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
217. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
218. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
219. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
220. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
221. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
222. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
223. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
224. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
225. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
226. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
227. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
228. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
229. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
230. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
231. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
232. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
233. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
234. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
235. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
236. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
237. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
238. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
239. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
240. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
241. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
242. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
243. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
244. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
245. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
246. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
247. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
248. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
249. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
250. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
251. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
252. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
253. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
254. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
255. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
256. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
257. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
258. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
259. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
260. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
261. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
262. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
263. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
264. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
265. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
266. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
267. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
268. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
269. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
270. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
271. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
272. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
273. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
274. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
275. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
276. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
277. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
278. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
279. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
280. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
281. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
282. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
283. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
284. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
285. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
286. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
287. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
288. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
289. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
290. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
291. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
292. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
293. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
294. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
295. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
296. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
297. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
298. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
299. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
300. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
301. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
302. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
303. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
304. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
305. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
306. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
307. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
308. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
309. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
310. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
311. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
312. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
313. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
314. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
315. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
316. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
317. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
318. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
319. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
320. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
321. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
322. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
323. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
324. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
325. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
326. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
327. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
328. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
329. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
330. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
331. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
332. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
333. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
334. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
335. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
336. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
337. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
338. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
339. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
340. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
341. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
342. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
343. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
344. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
345. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
346. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
347. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
348. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
349. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
350. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
351. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
352. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
353. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
354. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
355. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)