Planet Money

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