Planet Money

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