Planet Money

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