Planet Money

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