Planet Money

1. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
2. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
3. After the fires (2025-01-23)
4. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
5. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
6. The case for Fed Independence in the Nixon Tapes (2025-01-11)
7. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
8. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
9. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
10. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
11. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
12. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
13. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
14. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
15. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
16. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
17. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
18. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
19. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
20. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
21. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
22. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
23. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
24. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
25. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
26. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
27. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
28. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
29. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
30. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
31. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
32. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
33. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
34. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
35. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
36. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
37. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
38. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
39. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
40. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
41. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
42. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
43. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
44. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
45. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
46. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
47. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
48. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
49. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
50. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
51. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
52. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
53. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
54. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
55. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
56. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
57. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
58. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
59. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
60. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
61. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
62. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
63. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
64. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
65. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
66. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
67. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
68. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
69. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
70. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
71. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
72. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
73. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
74. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
75. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
76. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
77. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
78. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
79. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
80. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
81. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
82. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
83. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
84. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
85. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
86. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
87. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
88. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
89. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
90. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
91. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
92. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
93. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
94. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
95. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
96. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
97. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
98. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
99. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
100. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
101. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
102. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
103. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
104. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
105. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
106. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
107. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
108. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
109. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
110. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
111. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
112. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
113. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
114. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
115. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
116. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
117. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
118. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
119. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
120. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
121. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
122. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
123. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
124. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
125. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
126. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
127. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
128. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
129. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
130. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
131. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
132. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
133. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
134. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
135. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
136. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
137. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
138. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
139. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
140. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
141. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
142. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
143. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
144. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
145. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
146. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
147. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
148. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
149. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
150. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
151. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
152. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
153. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
154. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
155. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
156. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
157. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
158. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
159. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
160. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
161. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
162. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
163. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
164. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
165. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
166. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
167. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
168. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
169. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
170. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
171. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
172. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
173. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
174. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
175. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
176. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
177. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
178. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
179. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
180. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
181. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
182. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
183. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
184. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
185. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
186. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
187. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
188. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
189. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
190. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
191. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
192. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
193. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
194. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
195. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
196. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
197. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
198. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
199. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
200. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
201. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
202. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
203. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
204. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
205. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
206. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
207. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
208. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
209. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
210. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
211. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
212. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
213. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
214. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
215. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
216. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
217. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
218. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
219. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
220. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
221. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
222. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
223. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
224. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
225. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
226. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
227. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
228. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
229. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
230. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
231. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
232. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
233. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
234. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
235. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
236. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
237. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
238. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
239. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
240. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
241. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
242. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
243. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
244. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
245. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
246. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
247. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
248. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
249. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
250. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
251. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
252. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
253. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
254. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
255. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)
256. SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks (2022-08-25)
257. Inflation Reduction Actually (2022-08-20)
258. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life (2022-08-18)
259. Carried interest wormhole (2022-08-13)
260. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market (2022-08-11)
261. A new way to pay for college (Update) (2022-08-05)
262. SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies (2022-08-04)
263. We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical (2022-08-01)
264. Two recession Indicators (2022-07-29)
265. SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us (2022-07-28)
266. Little House on the Blockchain (2022-07-23)
267. SUMMER SCHOOL 2: GDP & What Counts (2022-07-21)
268. Best by, sell by, use by (2022-07-16)
269. SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles (2022-07-14)
270. A tale of two cityhoods (2022-07-09)
271. Two crypto crash Indicators (2022-07-06)
272. Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United (2022-07-02)
273. When Subaru came out (Classic) (2022-06-30)
274. Recession referees (2022-06-25)
275. The tale of the Onion King (Update) (2022-06-23)
276. The debate over what's causing inflation (2022-06-18)
277. Let them eat lunch (2022-06-16)
278. The Gecko Effect (2022-06-11)
279. On the case: Recession, formula, and greenbacks (2022-06-09)
280. Homer Simpson vs. the economy (2022-06-04)
281. The bank war (Classic) (2022-06-02)
282. We Buy a Superhero 7: Collectibles (Live Show!) (2022-05-28)
283. The NRA's Secret Tapes (2022-05-26)
284. Investing in mediocrity (2022-05-21)
285. How the burrito became a sandwich (Classic) (2022-05-19)
286. Buy now, pay dearly? (2022-05-14)
287. A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE) (2022-05-11)
288. The day Russia adopted the free market (2022-05-07)
289. Escheat show (Classic) (2022-05-05)
290. Planet Money book club (2022-04-29)
291. Risky business (2022-04-28)
292. We Buy a Superhero 6: The Comic Book (2022-04-23)
293. TikTok to the top (2022-04-21)
294. The student loan paaaaauuuuuse (2022-04-15)
295. Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic) (2022-04-13)
296. How manatees got into hot water (2022-04-09)
297. Turkey's runaway inflation problem (2022-04-07)
298. When bricks were rubles (2022-04-02)
299. The Bond King (2022-03-31)
300. Fashion Fair's makeover (2022-03-26)
301. Two inflation Indicators: Corporate greed and mortgage rates (2022-03-24)
302. Tech giants and tiny dogs (2022-03-19)
303. Escape from Russia (2022-03-17)
304. Grocery delivery wars (2022-03-11)
305. The dollar at the center of the world (Classic) (2022-03-10)
306. Of oligarchs, oil and rubles (2022-03-05)
307. 'Fortress' Russia put to the test (2022-03-03)
308. Putin's big bet: Sanction-proofing Russia (2022-02-25)
309. How bad is inflation? (2022-02-24)
310. Predictions: Inflation! (2022-02-19)
311. SPAM strikes back (2022-02-17)
312. Waste land (Bonus) (2022-02-15)
313. Our Valentines 2022 (2022-02-12)
314. A SWIFT getaway (2022-02-10)
315. Uncle Sam wants YOU to fight inflation (2022-02-05)
316. The M&M anomaly (Classic) (2022-02-02)
317. The Spider-Man Problem (2022-01-29)
318. Two indicators: supply chain solutions (2022-01-26)
319. 'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy (2022-01-21)
320. Patent racism (classic) (2022-01-19)
321. The rapid testing show (2022-01-15)
322. No such thing as a free return (2022-01-13)
323. HBO 2.0 (2022-01-08)
324. The rest of the story, 2021 (2022-01-05)
325. The holiday industrial complex (Classic) (2021-12-31)
326. The economic indicator of the year (2021-12-30)
327. Bell wars (Classic) (2021-12-24)
328. Planet Money's Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza (2021-12-23)
329. No shortages of labor stories (2021-12-18)
330. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Classic) (2021-12-15)
331. Two music indicators (2021-12-11)
332. Is a Stradivarius just a violin? (Classic) (2021-12-09)
333. Consider the lobstermen (2021-12-04)
334. A locked door, a secret meeting and the birth of the Fed (Classic) (2021-12-02)
335. Day of the Debt (2021-11-26)
336. You asked for real raises, free shipping, and a special delivery (2021-11-25)
337. A trunk full of truffles (Update) (2021-11-20)
338. Of boats and boxes (2021-11-17)
339. Auction fever (Classic) (2021-11-13)
340. Planes, trains and bad bridges (2021-11-11)
341. Moonshot in the arm (2021-11-06)
342. The Wheat Whisperer (2021-11-04)
343. Night of the living inflation (2021-10-30)
344. Nice work week, if you can get it (2021-10-28)
345. Two indicators: Congressional Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling (2021-10-23)
346. Burnout (Classic) (2021-10-21)
347. Bonus: Janet Jackson's 'Control' (2021-10-19)
348. Hire power (2021-10-15)
349. How Do You Feel? (Classic) (2021-10-14)
350. LIBOR pains (2021-10-09)
351. We set up an offshore company in a tax haven (Classic) (2021-10-07)
352. The Rent Help Is Too Damn Slow (2021-10-02)
353. When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (Classic) (2021-09-30)
354. When Luddites Attack (Classic) (2021-09-25)
355. Original Sign (2021-09-23)