Planet Money

1. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
2. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
3. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
4. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
5. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
6. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
7. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
8. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
9. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
10. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
11. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
12. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
13. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
14. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
15. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
16. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
17. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
18. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
19. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
20. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
21. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
22. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
23. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
24. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
25. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
26. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
27. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
28. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
29. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
30. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
31. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
32. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
33. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
34. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
35. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
36. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
37. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
38. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
39. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
40. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
41. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
42. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
43. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
44. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
45. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
46. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
47. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
48. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
49. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
50. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
51. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
52. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
53. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
54. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
55. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
56. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
57. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
58. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
59. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
60. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
61. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
62. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
63. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
64. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
65. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
66. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
67. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
68. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
69. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
70. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
71. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
72. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
73. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
74. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
75. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
76. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
77. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
78. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
79. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
80. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
81. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
82. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
83. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
84. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
85. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
86. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
87. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
88. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
89. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
90. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
91. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
92. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
93. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
94. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
95. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
96. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
97. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
98. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
99. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
100. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
101. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
102. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
103. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
104. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
105. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
106. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
107. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
108. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
109. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
110. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
111. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
112. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
113. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
114. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
115. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
116. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
117. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
118. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
119. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
120. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
121. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
122. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
123. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
124. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
125. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
126. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
127. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
128. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
129. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
130. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
131. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
132. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
133. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
134. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
135. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
136. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
137. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
138. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
139. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
140. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
141. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
142. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
143. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
144. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
145. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
146. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
147. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
148. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
149. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
150. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
151. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
152. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
153. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
154. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
155. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
156. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
157. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
158. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
159. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
160. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
161. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
162. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
163. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
164. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
165. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
166. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
167. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
168. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
169. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
170. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
171. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)
172. Tax Code Switch (2023-04-19)
173. The life and possible death of low interest rates (2023-04-15)
174. Two innovation market indicators (2023-04-13)
175. Your banking questions, answered (2023-04-08)
176. The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches (2023-04-05)
177. The safety net for banks (2023-04-01)
178. A Great Recession bank takeover (2023-03-30)
179. The battle over Osage headrights (2023-03-25)
180. Inside a bank run (2023-03-23)
181. Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit (2023-03-18)
182. How Silicon Valley Bank failed (2023-03-16)
183. Dude, where's my streaming TV show? (2023-03-11)
184. The value of good teeth (2023-03-09)
185. Seinfeld-onomics (2023-03-04)
186. CBOhhhh, that's what they do (2023-03-02)
187. Meow Money Meow Problems (2023-02-25)
188. Hollywood's Black List (Classic) (2023-02-23)
189. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (2023-02-18)
190. Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now (2023-02-16)
191. Our 2023 valentines (2023-02-11)
192. The ice cream conspiracy (2023-02-09)
193. Baby's first market failure (2023-02-03)
194. Groundhog Day 2023 (2023-02-02)
195. To all the econ papers I've loved before (2023-01-27)
196. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism (2023-01-26)
197. Charles Ponzi's scheme (2023-01-21)
198. Big Rigged (Classic) (2023-01-19)
199. Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target (2023-01-14)
200. Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life (2023-01-11)
201. The economics lessons in kids' books (2023-01-06)
202. The Rest of the Story, 2022 (2022-12-31)
203. Which economic indicator defined 2022? (2022-12-28)
204. In defense of gift giving (2022-12-24)
205. Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing (2022-12-21)
206. The sports ticket price enigma (2022-12-16)
207. Spam call bounty hunter (2022-12-15)
208. The case of the missing cheese racks (2022-12-10)
209. When women stopped coding (Classic) (2022-12-07)
210. My Favorite Tax Loophole (2022-12-03)
211. Messi economics (2022-12-01)
212. One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending (2022-11-23)
213. How the cookie became a monster (2022-11-19)
214. Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire (2022-11-17)
215. The E-Book Wars (2022-11-12)
216. Peak Sand (classic) (2022-11-10)
217. Planet Money tries election polling (2022-11-05)
218. Two Indicators shaking China's economy (2022-11-02)
219. Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation (2022-10-29)
220. Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson (2022-10-27)
221. The high cost of a strong dollar (2022-10-22)
222. The money fixers (classic) (2022-10-19)
223. You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish (2022-10-15)
224. Two Indicators: back to school (2022-10-13)
225. Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield (2022-10-08)
226. Economic anarchy in the UK (2022-10-06)
227. Would you like a side of offshoring with that? (2022-09-30)
228. The miracle apple (Classic) (2022-09-29)
229. Econ's Brush with the Law (2022-09-24)
230. The Midnight Connection (2022-09-22)
231. Vibecession Vibes Session (2022-09-17)
232. The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly (2022-09-15)
233. Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships (2022-09-09)
234. The salvage car Silk Road (2022-09-08)
235. Breaking down the price of gasoline (2022-09-03)
236. SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit (2022-09-01)
237. Wake up and smell the fraud (2022-08-27)
238. SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks (2022-08-25)
239. Inflation Reduction Actually (2022-08-20)
240. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life (2022-08-18)
241. Carried interest wormhole (2022-08-13)
242. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market (2022-08-11)
243. A new way to pay for college (Update) (2022-08-05)
244. SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies (2022-08-04)
245. We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical (2022-08-01)
246. Two recession Indicators (2022-07-29)
247. SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us (2022-07-28)
248. Little House on the Blockchain (2022-07-23)
249. SUMMER SCHOOL 2: GDP & What Counts (2022-07-21)
250. Best by, sell by, use by (2022-07-16)
251. SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles (2022-07-14)
252. A tale of two cityhoods (2022-07-09)
253. Two crypto crash Indicators (2022-07-06)
254. Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United (2022-07-02)
255. When Subaru came out (Classic) (2022-06-30)
256. Recession referees (2022-06-25)
257. The tale of the Onion King (Update) (2022-06-23)
258. The debate over what's causing inflation (2022-06-18)
259. Let them eat lunch (2022-06-16)
260. The Gecko Effect (2022-06-11)
261. On the case: Recession, formula, and greenbacks (2022-06-09)
262. Homer Simpson vs. the economy (2022-06-04)
263. The bank war (Classic) (2022-06-02)
264. We Buy a Superhero 7: Collectibles (Live Show!) (2022-05-28)
265. The NRA's Secret Tapes (2022-05-26)
266. Investing in mediocrity (2022-05-21)
267. How the burrito became a sandwich (Classic) (2022-05-19)
268. Buy now, pay dearly? (2022-05-14)
269. A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE) (2022-05-11)
270. The day Russia adopted the free market (2022-05-07)
271. Escheat show (Classic) (2022-05-05)
272. Planet Money book club (2022-04-29)
273. Risky business (2022-04-28)
274. We Buy a Superhero 6: The Comic Book (2022-04-23)
275. TikTok to the top (2022-04-21)
276. The student loan paaaaauuuuuse (2022-04-15)
277. Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic) (2022-04-13)
278. How manatees got into hot water (2022-04-09)
279. Turkey's runaway inflation problem (2022-04-07)
280. When bricks were rubles (2022-04-02)
281. The Bond King (2022-03-31)
282. Fashion Fair's makeover (2022-03-26)
283. Two inflation Indicators: Corporate greed and mortgage rates (2022-03-24)
284. Tech giants and tiny dogs (2022-03-19)
285. Escape from Russia (2022-03-17)
286. Grocery delivery wars (2022-03-11)
287. The dollar at the center of the world (Classic) (2022-03-10)
288. Of oligarchs, oil and rubles (2022-03-05)
289. 'Fortress' Russia put to the test (2022-03-03)
290. Putin's big bet: Sanction-proofing Russia (2022-02-25)
291. How bad is inflation? (2022-02-24)
292. Predictions: Inflation! (2022-02-19)
293. SPAM strikes back (2022-02-17)
294. Waste land (Bonus) (2022-02-15)
295. Our Valentines 2022 (2022-02-12)
296. A SWIFT getaway (2022-02-10)
297. Uncle Sam wants YOU to fight inflation (2022-02-05)
298. The M&M anomaly (Classic) (2022-02-02)
299. The Spider-Man Problem (2022-01-29)
300. Two indicators: supply chain solutions (2022-01-26)
301. 'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy (2022-01-21)
302. Patent racism (classic) (2022-01-19)
303. The rapid testing show (2022-01-15)
304. No such thing as a free return (2022-01-13)
305. HBO 2.0 (2022-01-08)
306. The rest of the story, 2021 (2022-01-05)
307. The holiday industrial complex (Classic) (2021-12-31)
308. The economic indicator of the year (2021-12-30)
309. Bell wars (Classic) (2021-12-24)
310. Planet Money's Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza (2021-12-23)
311. No shortages of labor stories (2021-12-18)
312. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Classic) (2021-12-15)
313. Two music indicators (2021-12-11)
314. Is a Stradivarius just a violin? (Classic) (2021-12-09)
315. Consider the lobstermen (2021-12-04)
316. A locked door, a secret meeting and the birth of the Fed (Classic) (2021-12-02)
317. Day of the Debt (2021-11-26)
318. You asked for real raises, free shipping, and a special delivery (2021-11-25)
319. A trunk full of truffles (Update) (2021-11-20)
320. Of boats and boxes (2021-11-17)
321. Auction fever (Classic) (2021-11-13)
322. Planes, trains and bad bridges (2021-11-11)
323. Moonshot in the arm (2021-11-06)
324. The Wheat Whisperer (2021-11-04)
325. Night of the living inflation (2021-10-30)
326. Nice work week, if you can get it (2021-10-28)
327. Two indicators: Congressional Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling (2021-10-23)
328. Burnout (Classic) (2021-10-21)
329. Bonus: Janet Jackson's 'Control' (2021-10-19)
330. Hire power (2021-10-15)
331. How Do You Feel? (Classic) (2021-10-14)
332. LIBOR pains (2021-10-09)
333. We set up an offshore company in a tax haven (Classic) (2021-10-07)
334. The Rent Help Is Too Damn Slow (2021-10-02)
335. When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (Classic) (2021-09-30)
336. When Luddites Attack (Classic) (2021-09-25)
337. Original Sign (2021-09-23)
338. Two Indicators: Women And Work (2021-09-18)
339. Afghanistan's Money Problem (2021-09-16)
340. Flood Money (Classic) (2021-09-11)
341. This Is Your Brain On Drug Ads (2021-09-09)
342. Two Indicators: Water Pressure (2021-09-04)
343. SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Crypto & Commencement (2021-09-02)
344. The Lost Archives of Sadie Alexander (2021-08-27)
345. SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Bubbles, Bikes, & Biases (2021-08-26)
346. Two Indicators: Will Remote Work Kill The Office? (2021-08-21)
347. SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Bonds & Becky With The Good Yield (2021-08-19)
348. Big Little Ideas (2021-08-14)
349. SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Smooth Spending & The 401K (2021-08-12)
350. Mobile Home Parked (2021-08-07)
351. SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Index Funds & The Bet (2021-08-04)
352. Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage (2021-07-31)
353. SUMMER SCHOOL 1: The Stock Market & Penelope The Cow (2021-07-29)
354. Banque Worms (2021-07-24)
355. Video Gaming The System (2021-07-22)