Planet Money

1. The Invention Invention (2026-02-11)
2. Iran, protests, and sanctions (2026-02-07)
3. Riding with the repo man (update) (2026-02-04)
4. Can Trump make buying a home more affordable? (2026-01-31)
5. Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? (2026-01-28)
6. A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch (2026-01-24)
7. BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name? (2026-01-22)
8. Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty (2026-01-17)
9. How much money President Trump and his family have made (2026-01-14)
10. So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for. (2026-01-10)
11. How Black hair care grew Black power (2026-01-07)
12. Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) (2026-01-04)
13. Indicators of the Year, Past and Future (2025-12-31)
14. Why economists got free trade with China so wrong (2025-12-30)
15. The Rest of the Story, 2025 (2025-12-26)
16. The summer I turned binge-y (2025-12-24)
17. What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill (2025-12-20)
18. PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition (2025-12-17)
19. When Chicago pawned its parking meters (2025-12-13)
20. Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear (2025-12-10)
21. How hurricanes became a hot investment (2025-12-06)
22. Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) (2025-12-03)
23. Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) (2025-11-28)
24. Saving lives with fewer dollars (2025-11-27)
25. The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle (2025-11-21)
26. Days of our Tariffs (2025-11-19)
27. The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina (2025-11-15)
28. Buy now, pay dearly? (update) (2025-11-12)
29. A new experiment in remote work … from the inside (2025-11-07)
30. Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) (2025-11-05)
31. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
32. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
33. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
34. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
35. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
36. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
37. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
38. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
39. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
40. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
41. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
42. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
43. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
44. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
45. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
46. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
47. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
48. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
49. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
50. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
51. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
52. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
53. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
54. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-13)
55. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
56. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
57. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
58. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
59. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
60. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
61. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
62. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
63. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
64. Made in America (2025-07-12)
65. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
66. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
67. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
68. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
69. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
70. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
71. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
72. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
73. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
74. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
75. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
76. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
77. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
78. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
79. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
80. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
81. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
82. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
83. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
84. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
85. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
86. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
87. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
88. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
89. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
90. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
91. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
92. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
93. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
94. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
95. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
96. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
97. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
98. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
99. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
100. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
101. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
102. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
103. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
104. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
105. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
106. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
107. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
108. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
109. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
110. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
111. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
112. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
113. After the fires (2025-01-23)
114. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
115. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
116. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
117. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
118. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
119. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
120. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
121. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
122. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
123. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
124. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
125. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
126. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
127. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
128. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
129. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
130. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
131. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
132. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
133. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
134. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
135. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
136. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
137. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
138. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
139. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
140. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
141. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
142. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
143. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
144. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
145. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
146. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
147. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
148. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
149. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
150. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
151. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
152. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
153. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
154. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
155. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
156. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
157. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
158. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
159. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
160. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
161. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
162. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
163. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
164. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
165. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
166. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
167. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
168. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
169. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
170. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
171. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
172. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
173. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
174. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
175. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
176. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
177. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
178. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
179. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
180. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
181. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
182. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
183. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
184. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
185. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
186. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
187. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
188. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
189. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
190. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
191. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
192. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
193. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
194. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
195. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
196. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
197. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
198. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
199. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
200. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
201. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
202. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
203. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
204. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
205. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
206. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
207. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
208. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
209. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
210. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
211. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
212. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
213. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
214. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
215. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
216. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
217. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
218. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
219. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
220. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
221. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
222. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
223. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
224. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
225. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
226. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
227. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
228. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
229. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
230. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
231. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
232. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
233. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
234. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
235. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
236. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
237. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
238. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
239. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
240. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
241. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
242. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
243. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
244. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
245. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
246. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
247. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
248. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
249. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
250. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
251. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
252. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
253. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
254. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
255. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
256. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
257. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
258. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
259. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
260. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
261. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
262. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
263. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
264. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
265. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
266. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
267. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
268. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
269. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
270. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
271. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
272. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
273. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
274. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
275. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
276. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
277. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
278. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
279. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
280. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
281. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
282. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
283. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
284. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
285. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
286. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
287. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
288. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
289. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
290. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
291. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
292. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
293. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
294. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
295. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
296. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
297. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
298. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
299. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
300. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
301. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
302. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
303. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
304. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
305. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
306. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
307. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
308. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
309. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
310. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
311. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
312. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
313. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
314. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
315. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
316. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
317. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
318. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
319. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
320. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
321. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
322. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
323. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
324. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
325. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
326. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
327. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
328. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
329. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
330. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
331. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
332. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
333. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
334. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
335. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
336. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
337. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
338. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
339. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
340. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
341. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
342. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
343. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
344. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
345. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
346. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
347. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
348. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
349. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
350. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
351. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
352. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
353. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
354. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
355. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)