Planet Money

1. The summer I turned binge-y (2025-12-24)
2. What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill (2025-12-20)
3. PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition (2025-12-17)
4. When Chicago pawned its parking meters (2025-12-13)
5. Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear (2025-12-10)
6. How hurricanes became a hot investment (2025-12-06)
7. Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) (2025-12-03)
8. Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) (2025-11-28)
9. Saving lives with fewer dollars (2025-11-27)
10. The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle (2025-11-21)
11. Days of our Tariffs (2025-11-19)
12. The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina (2025-11-15)
13. Buy now, pay dearly? (update) (2025-11-12)
14. A new experiment in remote work … from the inside (2025-11-07)
15. Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) (2025-11-05)
16. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
17. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
18. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
19. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
20. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
21. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
22. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
23. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
24. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
25. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
26. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
27. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
28. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
29. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
30. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
31. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
32. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
33. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
34. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
35. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
36. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
37. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
38. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
39. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-13)
40. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
41. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
42. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
43. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
44. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
45. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
46. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
47. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
48. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
49. Made in America (2025-07-12)
50. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
51. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
52. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
53. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
54. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
55. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
56. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
57. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
58. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
59. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
60. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
61. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
62. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
63. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
64. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
65. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
66. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
67. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
68. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
69. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
70. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
71. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
72. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
73. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
74. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
75. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
76. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
77. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
78. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
79. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
80. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
81. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
82. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
83. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
84. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
85. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
86. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
87. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
88. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
89. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
90. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
91. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
92. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
93. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
94. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
95. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
96. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
97. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
98. After the fires (2025-01-23)
99. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
100. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
101. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
102. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
103. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
104. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
105. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
106. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
107. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
108. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
109. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
110. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
111. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
112. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
113. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
114. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
115. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
116. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
117. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
118. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
119. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
120. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
121. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
122. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
123. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
124. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
125. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
126. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
127. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
128. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
129. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
130. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
131. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
132. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
133. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
134. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
135. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
136. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
137. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
138. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
139. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
140. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
141. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
142. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
143. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
144. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
145. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
146. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
147. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
148. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
149. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
150. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
151. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
152. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
153. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
154. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
155. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
156. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
157. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
158. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
159. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
160. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
161. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
162. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
163. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
164. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
165. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
166. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
167. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
168. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
169. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
170. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
171. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
172. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
173. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
174. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
175. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
176. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
177. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
178. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
179. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
180. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
181. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
182. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
183. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
184. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
185. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
186. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
187. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
188. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
189. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
190. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
191. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
192. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
193. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
194. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
195. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
196. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
197. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
198. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
199. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
200. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
201. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
202. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
203. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
204. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
205. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
206. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
207. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
208. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
209. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
210. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
211. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
212. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
213. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
214. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
215. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
216. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
217. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
218. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
219. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
220. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
221. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
222. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
223. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
224. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
225. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
226. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
227. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
228. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
229. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
230. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
231. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
232. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
233. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
234. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
235. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
236. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
237. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
238. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
239. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
240. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
241. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
242. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
243. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
244. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
245. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
246. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
247. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
248. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
249. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
250. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
251. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
252. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
253. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
254. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
255. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
256. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
257. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
258. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
259. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
260. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
261. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
262. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
263. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
264. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
265. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
266. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
267. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
268. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
269. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
270. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
271. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
272. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
273. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
274. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
275. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
276. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
277. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
278. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
279. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
280. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
281. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
282. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
283. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
284. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
285. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
286. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
287. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
288. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
289. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
290. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
291. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
292. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
293. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
294. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
295. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
296. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
297. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
298. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
299. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
300. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
301. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
302. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
303. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
304. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
305. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
306. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
307. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
308. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
309. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
310. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
311. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
312. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
313. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
314. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
315. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
316. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
317. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
318. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
319. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
320. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
321. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
322. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
323. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
324. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
325. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
326. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
327. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
328. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
329. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
330. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
331. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
332. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
333. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
334. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
335. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
336. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
337. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
338. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
339. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
340. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
341. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
342. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
343. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
344. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
345. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
346. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
347. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
348. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
349. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
350. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)
351. SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks (2022-08-25)
352. Inflation Reduction Actually (2022-08-20)
353. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life (2022-08-18)
354. Carried interest wormhole (2022-08-13)
355. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market (2022-08-11)