Planet Money

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