Planet Money

1. How Black hair care grew Black power (2026-01-07)
2. Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) (2026-01-04)
3. Indicators of the Year, Past and Future (2025-12-31)
4. Why economists got free trade with China so wrong (2025-12-30)
5. The Rest of the Story, 2025 (2025-12-26)
6. The summer I turned binge-y (2025-12-24)
7. What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill (2025-12-20)
8. PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition (2025-12-17)
9. When Chicago pawned its parking meters (2025-12-13)
10. Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear (2025-12-10)
11. How hurricanes became a hot investment (2025-12-06)
12. Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) (2025-12-03)
13. Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) (2025-11-28)
14. Saving lives with fewer dollars (2025-11-27)
15. The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle (2025-11-21)
16. Days of our Tariffs (2025-11-19)
17. The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina (2025-11-15)
18. Buy now, pay dearly? (update) (2025-11-12)
19. A new experiment in remote work … from the inside (2025-11-07)
20. Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) (2025-11-05)
21. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
22. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
23. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
24. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
25. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
26. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
27. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
28. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
29. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
30. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
31. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
32. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
33. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
34. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
35. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
36. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
37. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
38. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
39. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
40. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
41. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
42. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
43. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
44. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-13)
45. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
46. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
47. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
48. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
49. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
50. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
51. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
52. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
53. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
54. Made in America (2025-07-12)
55. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
56. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
57. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
58. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
59. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
60. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
61. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
62. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
63. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
64. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
65. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
66. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
67. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
68. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
69. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
70. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
71. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
72. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
73. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
74. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
75. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
76. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
77. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
78. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
79. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
80. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
81. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
82. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
83. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
84. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
85. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
86. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
87. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
88. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
89. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
90. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
91. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
92. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
93. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
94. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
95. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
96. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
97. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
98. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
99. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
100. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
101. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
102. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
103. After the fires (2025-01-23)
104. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
105. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
106. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
107. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
108. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
109. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
110. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
111. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
112. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
113. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
114. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
115. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
116. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
117. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
118. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
119. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
120. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
121. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
122. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
123. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
124. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
125. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
126. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
127. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
128. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
129. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
130. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
131. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
132. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
133. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
134. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
135. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
136. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
137. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
138. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
139. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
140. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
141. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
142. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
143. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
144. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
145. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
146. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
147. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
148. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
149. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
150. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
151. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
152. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
153. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
154. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
155. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
156. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
157. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
158. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
159. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
160. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
161. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
162. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
163. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
164. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
165. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
166. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
167. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
168. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
169. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
170. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
171. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
172. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
173. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
174. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
175. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
176. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
177. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
178. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
179. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
180. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
181. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
182. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
183. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
184. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
185. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
186. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
187. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
188. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
189. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
190. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
191. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
192. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
193. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
194. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
195. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
196. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
197. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
198. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
199. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
200. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
201. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
202. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
203. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
204. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
205. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
206. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
207. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
208. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
209. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
210. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
211. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
212. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
213. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
214. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
215. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
216. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
217. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
218. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
219. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
220. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
221. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
222. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
223. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
224. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
225. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
226. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
227. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
228. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
229. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
230. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
231. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
232. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
233. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
234. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
235. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
236. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
237. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
238. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
239. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
240. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
241. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
242. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
243. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
244. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
245. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
246. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
247. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
248. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
249. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
250. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
251. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
252. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
253. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
254. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
255. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
256. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
257. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
258. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
259. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
260. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
261. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
262. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
263. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
264. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
265. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
266. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
267. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
268. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
269. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
270. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
271. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
272. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
273. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
274. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
275. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
276. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
277. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
278. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
279. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
280. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
281. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
282. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
283. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
284. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
285. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
286. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
287. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
288. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
289. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
290. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
291. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
292. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
293. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
294. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
295. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
296. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
297. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
298. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
299. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
300. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
301. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
302. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
303. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
304. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
305. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
306. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
307. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
308. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
309. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
310. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
311. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
312. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
313. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
314. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
315. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
316. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
317. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
318. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
319. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
320. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
321. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
322. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
323. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
324. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
325. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
326. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
327. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
328. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
329. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
330. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
331. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
332. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
333. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
334. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
335. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
336. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
337. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
338. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
339. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
340. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
341. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
342. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
343. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
344. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
345. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
346. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
347. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
348. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
349. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
350. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
351. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
352. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
353. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
354. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
355. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)