Planet Money

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