Planet Money

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