Planet Money

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