Planet Money

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