Planet Money

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