Planet Money

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