Planet Money

1. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
2. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
3. The case for Fed Independence in the Nixon Tapes (2025-01-11)
4. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
5. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
6. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
7. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
8. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
9. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
10. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
11. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
12. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
13. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
14. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
15. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
16. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
17. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
18. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
19. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
20. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
21. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
22. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
23. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
24. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
25. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
26. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
27. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
28. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
29. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
30. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
31. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
32. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
33. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
34. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
35. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
36. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
37. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
38. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
39. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
40. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
41. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
42. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
43. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
44. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
45. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
46. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
47. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
48. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
49. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
50. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
51. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
52. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
53. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
54. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
55. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
56. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
57. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
58. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
59. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
60. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
61. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
62. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
63. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
64. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
65. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
66. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
67. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
68. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
69. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
70. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
71. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
72. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
73. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
74. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
75. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
76. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
77. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
78. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
79. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
80. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
81. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
82. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
83. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
84. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
85. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
86. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
87. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
88. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
89. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
90. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
91. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
92. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
93. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
94. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
95. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
96. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
97. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
98. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
99. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
100. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
101. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
102. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
103. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
104. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
105. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
106. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
107. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
108. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
109. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
110. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
111. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
112. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
113. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
114. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
115. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
116. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
117. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
118. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
119. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
120. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
121. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
122. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
123. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
124. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
125. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
126. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
127. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
128. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
129. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
130. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
131. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
132. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
133. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
134. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
135. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
136. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
137. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
138. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
139. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
140. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
141. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
142. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
143. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
144. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
145. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
146. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
147. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
148. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
149. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
150. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
151. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
152. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
153. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
154. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
155. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
156. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
157. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
158. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
159. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
160. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
161. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
162. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
163. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
164. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
165. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
166. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
167. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
168. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
169. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
170. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
171. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
172. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
173. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
174. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
175. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
176. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
177. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
178. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
179. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
180. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
181. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
182. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
183. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
184. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
185. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
186. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
187. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
188. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
189. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
190. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
191. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
192. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
193. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
194. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
195. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
196. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
197. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
198. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
199. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
200. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
201. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
202. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
203. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
204. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
205. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
206. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
207. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
208. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
209. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
210. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
211. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
212. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
213. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
214. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
215. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
216. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
217. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
218. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
219. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
220. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
221. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
222. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
223. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
224. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
225. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
226. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
227. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
228. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
229. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
230. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
231. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
232. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
233. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
234. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
235. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
236. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
237. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
238. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
239. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
240. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
241. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
242. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
243. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
244. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
245. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
246. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
247. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
248. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
249. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
250. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
251. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
252. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)
253. SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks (2022-08-25)
254. Inflation Reduction Actually (2022-08-20)
255. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life (2022-08-18)
256. Carried interest wormhole (2022-08-13)
257. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market (2022-08-11)
258. A new way to pay for college (Update) (2022-08-05)
259. SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies (2022-08-04)
260. We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical (2022-08-01)
261. Two recession Indicators (2022-07-29)
262. SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us (2022-07-28)
263. Little House on the Blockchain (2022-07-23)
264. SUMMER SCHOOL 2: GDP & What Counts (2022-07-21)
265. Best by, sell by, use by (2022-07-16)
266. SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles (2022-07-14)
267. A tale of two cityhoods (2022-07-09)
268. Two crypto crash Indicators (2022-07-06)
269. Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United (2022-07-02)
270. When Subaru came out (Classic) (2022-06-30)
271. Recession referees (2022-06-25)
272. The tale of the Onion King (Update) (2022-06-23)
273. The debate over what's causing inflation (2022-06-18)
274. Let them eat lunch (2022-06-16)
275. The Gecko Effect (2022-06-11)
276. On the case: Recession, formula, and greenbacks (2022-06-09)
277. Homer Simpson vs. the economy (2022-06-04)
278. The bank war (Classic) (2022-06-02)
279. We Buy a Superhero 7: Collectibles (Live Show!) (2022-05-28)
280. The NRA's Secret Tapes (2022-05-26)
281. Investing in mediocrity (2022-05-21)
282. How the burrito became a sandwich (Classic) (2022-05-19)
283. Buy now, pay dearly? (2022-05-14)
284. A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE) (2022-05-11)
285. The day Russia adopted the free market (2022-05-07)
286. Escheat show (Classic) (2022-05-05)
287. Planet Money book club (2022-04-29)
288. Risky business (2022-04-28)
289. We Buy a Superhero 6: The Comic Book (2022-04-23)
290. TikTok to the top (2022-04-21)
291. The student loan paaaaauuuuuse (2022-04-15)
292. Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic) (2022-04-13)
293. How manatees got into hot water (2022-04-09)
294. Turkey's runaway inflation problem (2022-04-07)
295. When bricks were rubles (2022-04-02)
296. The Bond King (2022-03-31)
297. Fashion Fair's makeover (2022-03-26)
298. Two inflation Indicators: Corporate greed and mortgage rates (2022-03-24)
299. Tech giants and tiny dogs (2022-03-19)
300. Escape from Russia (2022-03-17)
301. Grocery delivery wars (2022-03-11)
302. The dollar at the center of the world (Classic) (2022-03-10)
303. Of oligarchs, oil and rubles (2022-03-05)
304. 'Fortress' Russia put to the test (2022-03-03)
305. Putin's big bet: Sanction-proofing Russia (2022-02-25)
306. How bad is inflation? (2022-02-24)
307. Predictions: Inflation! (2022-02-19)
308. SPAM strikes back (2022-02-17)
309. Waste land (Bonus) (2022-02-15)
310. Our Valentines 2022 (2022-02-12)
311. A SWIFT getaway (2022-02-10)
312. Uncle Sam wants YOU to fight inflation (2022-02-05)
313. The M&M anomaly (Classic) (2022-02-02)
314. The Spider-Man Problem (2022-01-29)
315. Two indicators: supply chain solutions (2022-01-26)
316. 'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy (2022-01-21)
317. Patent racism (classic) (2022-01-19)
318. The rapid testing show (2022-01-15)
319. No such thing as a free return (2022-01-13)
320. HBO 2.0 (2022-01-08)
321. The rest of the story, 2021 (2022-01-05)
322. The holiday industrial complex (Classic) (2021-12-31)
323. The economic indicator of the year (2021-12-30)
324. Bell wars (Classic) (2021-12-24)
325. Planet Money's Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza (2021-12-23)
326. No shortages of labor stories (2021-12-18)
327. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Classic) (2021-12-15)
328. Two music indicators (2021-12-11)
329. Is a Stradivarius just a violin? (Classic) (2021-12-09)
330. Consider the lobstermen (2021-12-04)
331. A locked door, a secret meeting and the birth of the Fed (Classic) (2021-12-02)
332. Day of the Debt (2021-11-26)
333. You asked for real raises, free shipping, and a special delivery (2021-11-25)
334. A trunk full of truffles (Update) (2021-11-20)
335. Of boats and boxes (2021-11-17)
336. Auction fever (Classic) (2021-11-13)
337. Planes, trains and bad bridges (2021-11-11)
338. Moonshot in the arm (2021-11-06)
339. The Wheat Whisperer (2021-11-04)
340. Night of the living inflation (2021-10-30)
341. Nice work week, if you can get it (2021-10-28)
342. Two indicators: Congressional Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling (2021-10-23)
343. Burnout (Classic) (2021-10-21)
344. Bonus: Janet Jackson's 'Control' (2021-10-19)
345. Hire power (2021-10-15)
346. How Do You Feel? (Classic) (2021-10-14)
347. LIBOR pains (2021-10-09)
348. We set up an offshore company in a tax haven (Classic) (2021-10-07)
349. The Rent Help Is Too Damn Slow (2021-10-02)
350. When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (Classic) (2021-09-30)
351. When Luddites Attack (Classic) (2021-09-25)
352. Original Sign (2021-09-23)
353. Two Indicators: Women And Work (2021-09-18)
354. Afghanistan's Money Problem (2021-09-16)
355. Flood Money (Classic) (2021-09-11)