Planet Money

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