Planet Money

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