Planet Money

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