Planet Money

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