Planet Money

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