Planet Money

1. Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers (2026-08-21)
2. Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School) (2026-08-19)
3. You bet your life insurance (2026-08-14)
4. Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) (2026-08-12)
5. Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? (2026-08-07)
6. Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School) (2026-08-05)
7. What makes a toy go viral (2026-07-31)
8. How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School) (2026-07-29)
9. Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) (2026-07-24)
10. Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine (2026-07-23)
11. New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast (2026-07-21)
12. Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.? (2026-07-18)
13. Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour) (2026-07-15)
14. Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal (2026-07-10)
15. Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) (2026-07-08)
16. How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory) (2026-07-03)
17. Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? (2026-07-01)
18. We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail? (2026-06-26)
19. Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets (2026-06-24)
20. The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough (2026-06-19)
21. Can computer hackers get inside your mind? (2026-06-17)
22. It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down? (2026-06-13)
23. Two indicators for lowering the rent (2026-06-10)
24. Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? (2026-06-05)
25. There's no business like dough business (2026-06-03)
26. The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food (2026-05-29)
27. The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes (2026-05-27)
28. The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake (2026-05-23)
29. Vacation and why Americans take so little (2026-05-20)
30. Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence (2026-05-15)
31. The secret meeting that launched OPEC (2026-05-14)
32. Diary of a WNBA negotiator (2026-05-09)
33. How we got free agents in baseball (2026-05-06)
34. How to make a BOOK into a bestseller (2026-05-02)
35. Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights (2026-04-29)
36. Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China (2026-04-24)
37. Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs (2026-04-22)
38. Do prediction market bettors make anything better? (2026-04-18)
39. How to get through the Strait of Hormuz (2026-04-15)
40. BOOKstore Economics (2026-04-11)
41. A pro-worker experiment in private equity (2026-04-08)
42. Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation (2026-04-04)
43. Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment (2026-04-02)
44. The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop (2026-03-28)
45. Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain (2026-03-26)
46. Inside a BOOK auction (2026-03-21)
47. The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon (2026-03-18)
48. Chef vs. Robot (2026-03-13)
49. The laws of the office revisited (2026-03-11)
50. Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem (2026-03-06)
51. The Business of Heated Rivalry (2026-03-04)
52. Don't hate the replicator, hate the game (2026-02-27)
53. The ICE hiring boom (2026-02-25)
54. The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? (2026-02-21)
55. How to get what Greenland has, with permission (2026-02-18)
56. Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines (2026-02-14)
57. The Invention Invention (2026-02-11)
58. Iran, protests, and sanctions (2026-02-07)
59. Riding with the repo man (update) (2026-02-04)
60. Can Trump make buying a home more affordable? (2026-01-31)
61. Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? (2026-01-28)
62. A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch (2026-01-24)
63. BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name? (2026-01-22)
64. Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty (2026-01-17)
65. How much money President Trump and his family have made (2026-01-14)
66. So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for. (2026-01-10)
67. How Black hair care grew Black power (2026-01-07)
68. Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) (2026-01-04)
69. Indicators of the Year, Past and Future (2025-12-31)
70. Why economists got free trade with China so wrong (2025-12-30)
71. The Rest of the Story, 2025 (2025-12-26)
72. The summer I turned binge-y (2025-12-24)
73. What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill (2025-12-20)
74. PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition (2025-12-17)
75. When Chicago pawned its parking meters (2025-12-13)
76. Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear (2025-12-10)
77. How hurricanes became a hot investment (2025-12-06)
78. Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) (2025-12-03)
79. Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) (2025-11-28)
80. Saving lives with fewer dollars (2025-11-27)
81. The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle (2025-11-21)
82. Days of our Tariffs (2025-11-19)
83. The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina (2025-11-15)
84. Buy now, pay dearly? (update) (2025-11-12)
85. A new experiment in remote work … from the inside (2025-11-07)
86. Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) (2025-11-05)
87. After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble (2025-11-01)
88. The remittance mystery (2025-10-30)
89. Should the fine have to fit the crime? (2025-10-24)
90. TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy (2025-10-22)
91. How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions (2025-10-17)
92. The year NYC went broke (2025-10-15)
93. How the government got hedge funded (2025-10-10)
94. Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (2025-10-08)
95. BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype (2025-10-04)
96. BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game (2025-10-01)
97. How refrigeration took over the world (2025-09-26)
98. How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled (2025-09-24)
99. In Gaza, money is falling apart (2025-09-20)
100. When CEO pay exploded (update) (2025-09-17)
101. The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. (2025-09-12)
102. Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? (2025-09-10)
103. What happens to central banks under pressure? (2025-09-06)
104. The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com (2025-09-03)
105. Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed (2025-08-30)
106. Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! (2025-08-27)
107. Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link (2025-08-23)
108. Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages (2025-08-20)
109. When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI (2025-08-15)
110. What happens when governments cook the books (2025-08-09)
111. Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer (2025-08-06)
112. Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry (2025-08-06)
113. Would you trust an economist with your economy? (2025-08-02)
114. Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? (2025-07-30)
115. The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel (2025-07-26)
116. Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on (2025-07-23)
117. Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? (2025-07-18)
118. Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media (2025-07-18)
119. Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy (2025-07-16)
120. Made in America (2025-07-12)
121. Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer (2025-07-09)
122. The simple math of the big bill (2025-07-04)
123. A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem (2025-07-02)
124. When Trump met crypto (2025-06-28)
125. Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown (2025-06-26)
126. The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? (2025-06-21)
127. Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) (2025-06-19)
128. Why I joined DOGE (2025-06-14)
129. Are Trump's tariffs legal? (2025-06-12)
130. When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA (2025-06-07)
131. Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) (2025-06-04)
132. The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory (2025-05-30)
133. Why does the government fund research at universities? (2025-05-29)
134. The secret world behind those scammy text messages (2025-05-23)
135. How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming (2025-05-22)
136. The 145% tariff already did its damage (2025-05-17)
137. What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war (2025-05-15)
138. Is the reign of the dollar over? (2025-05-10)
139. What "Made in China" actually means (2025-05-07)
140. Why it's so hard to find a public toilet (2025-05-03)
141. Planet Money complains. To learn. (2025-04-30)
142. How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank (2025-04-26)
143. A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence (2025-04-23)
144. How much for that egg (2025-04-18)
145. OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government (2025-04-16)
146. Trade war dispatch from Canada (2025-04-12)
147. Do trade deficits matter? (2025-04-10)
148. How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries (2025-04-05)
149. Tariffs: What are they good for? (2025-04-03)
150. PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? (2025-03-28)
151. Planet Money buys a mystery diamond (2025-03-26)
152. Can we just change how we measure GDP? (2025-03-21)
153. Escheat show (Update) (2025-03-19)
154. How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring (2025-03-14)
155. The last time we shrank the federal workforce (2025-03-12)
156. How to start a bank (2025-03-07)
157. The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin (2025-03-05)
158. The Memecoin Casino (2025-02-28)
159. The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers (2025-02-27)
160. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (2025-02-22)
161. Can the president override Congress on spending? (2025-02-19)
162. The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze (2025-02-14)
163. The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria (2025-02-11)
164. The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure (2025-02-07)
165. How the scratch off lottery changed America (2025-02-05)
166. How DeepSeek changed the market's mind (2025-02-01)
167. Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) (2025-01-29)
168. The "chilling effect" of deportations (2025-01-25)
169. After the fires (2025-01-23)
170. Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions (2025-01-18)
171. The Land of the Duty Free (classic) (2025-01-15)
172. The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes (2025-01-11)
173. ZIP Codes! (2025-01-08)
174. The potato-shaped loophole in free trade (2025-01-04)
175. If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? (2024-12-30)
176. The Rest of the Story, 2024 (2024-12-27)
177. The Indicators of this year and next (2024-12-25)
178. The habitat banker (2024-12-21)
179. How sports gambling blew up (2024-12-18)
180. A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality (2024-12-14)
181. Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) (2024-12-11)
182. There Will Be Flood (2024-12-06)
183. George Soros vs. the Bank of England (2024-12-04)
184. How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? (2024-12-02)
185. Why you bought your couch (2024-11-27)
186. Title Pirates (2024-11-23)
187. The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) (2024-11-20)
188. The great German land lottery (2024-11-15)
189. The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made (2024-11-13)
190. What markets bet President Trump will do (2024-11-09)
191. Moving to the American dream? (update) (2024-11-06)
192. The veteran loan calamity (2024-11-01)
193. So your data was stolen in a data breach (2024-10-31)
194. Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? (2024-10-26)
195. Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators (2024-10-23)
196. The Subscription Trap (2024-10-19)
197. We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... (2024-10-16)
198. So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? (2024-10-12)
199. Can cap and trade work in the US? (2024-10-10)
200. What's up with all the ads for law firms? (2024-10-04)
201. How Venezuela imploded (update) (2024-10-03)
202. What's THAT got to do with economics? (2024-09-27)
203. Veep-onomics (2024-09-25)
204. How to save 10,000 fingers (2024-09-20)
205. Can money buy happiness? (2024-09-18)
206. 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses (2024-09-16)
207. Rate Expectations (2024-09-13)
208. Is AI overrated or underrated? (2024-09-11)
209. Summer camp capitalism (2024-09-07)
210. Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) (2024-09-05)
211. How to fix a housing shortage (2024-08-30)
212. Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more (2024-08-28)
213. The trade fraud detective (2024-08-23)
214. Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy (2024-08-21)
215. The hidden world behind your new "banking" app (2024-08-16)
216. Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich (2024-08-14)
217. Will the Olympics break breakdancing? (2024-08-10)
218. Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters (2024-08-07)
219. What to do when you're in a class action (2024-08-02)
220. Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar (2024-07-31)
221. Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life (2024-07-27)
222. What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like (2024-07-25)
223. The color monopoly (2024-07-20)
224. Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms (2024-07-17)
225. Rooftop solar's dark side (2024-07-13)
226. Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World (2024-07-10)
227. How flying got so bad (or did it?) (2024-07-05)
228. The two companies driving the modern economy (2024-07-04)
229. Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? (2024-06-29)
230. The Carriage Tax (Update) (2024-06-27)
231. The Vapes of Wrath (2024-06-22)
232. Why is everyone talking about Musk's money? (2024-06-19)
233. What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (2024-06-15)
234. Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight (2024-06-13)
235. How much national debt is too much? (2024-06-08)
236. The history of light (classic) (2024-06-05)
237. How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells (2024-06-01)
238. So you've been scammed, now what? (2024-05-30)
239. The junkyard economist (2024-05-25)
240. Anatomy of a layoff (2024-05-23)
241. The hack that almost broke the internet (2024-05-18)
242. Why Gold? (Classic) (2024-05-15)
243. Zombie mortgages are coming back to life (2024-05-11)
244. Inside video game economics (Two Indicators) (2024-05-08)
245. The birth of the modern consumer movement (2024-05-03)
246. Hire Power (Update) (2024-05-02)
247. The case of the stolen masks (2024-04-26)
248. How unions are stopped before they start (Update) (2024-04-25)
249. FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy (2024-04-20)
250. Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators) (2024-04-18)
251. TikTok made me deduct it (2024-04-12)
252. How much does this cow weigh? (Classic) (2024-04-10)
253. Japan's Lost Decades (2024-04-06)
254. The real estate industry on trial (2024-04-04)
255. How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine (2024-03-29)
256. The trouble with Table 101 (Update) (2024-03-27)
257. What is Temu? (2024-03-22)
258. How Big Steel in the U.S. fell (2024-03-20)
259. The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum (2024-03-16)
260. Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) (2024-03-13)
261. On the Oscars campaign trail (2024-03-08)
262. Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? (2024-03-07)
263. Shopping for parental benefits around the world (2024-03-02)
264. The secret world behind school fundraisers (2024-02-29)
265. A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics (2024-02-24)
266. Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry (2024-02-21)
267. How the Navy came to protect cargo ships (2024-02-16)
268. It's giving ... Valentines (2024-02-15)
269. A lawsuit for your broken heart (2024-02-10)
270. Morally questionable, economically efficient (2024-02-08)
271. Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed (2024-02-02)
272. The Chicken Tax (Classic) (2024-02-01)
273. Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (2024-01-29)
274. Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune (2024-01-27)
275. Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas (2024-01-24)
276. Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation (2024-01-20)
277. Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators (2024-01-18)
278. The Maine Potato War of 1976 (2024-01-13)
279. The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya (2024-01-10)
280. The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships (2024-01-05)
281. The Rest of the Story, 2023 (2023-12-29)
282. The Indicators of this year and next (2023-12-27)
283. We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update) (2023-12-22)
284. Dollarizing Argentina (2023-12-21)
285. How to be better at hybrid work, according to research (2023-12-19)
286. What econ says in the shadows (2023-12-16)
287. Why '90s ads are unforgettable (2023-12-14)
288. The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained (2023-12-11)
289. Why do doctors still use pagers? (2023-12-09)
290. Two food and drink indicators (2023-12-07)
291. Why are we so bummed about the economy? (2023-12-02)
292. So you want to sell marijuana across state lines (2023-11-30)
293. A very Planet Money Thanksgiving (2023-11-23)
294. Economic fact in literary fiction (2023-11-18)
295. China's real estate crisis, explained (2023-11-16)
296. The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT (2023-11-11)
297. Never have I ever (2023-11-09)
298. FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon (2023-11-03)
299. Antitrust in America (classic) (2023-11-02)
300. All you can eat economics (2023-10-28)
301. Cutting school... by 20% (2023-10-26)
302. How unions are stopped before they start (2023-10-21)
303. Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation (2023-10-18)
304. Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance (2023-10-14)
305. Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic) (2023-10-11)
306. A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay (2023-10-06)
307. The flight attendants of CHAOS (2023-10-05)
308. A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions (2023-09-29)
309. The natural disaster economist (2023-09-27)
310. A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina (2023-09-23)
311. "Based on a true story" (2023-09-20)
312. How to launder $600 million on the internet (2023-09-16)
313. China's weakening economy in two Indicators (2023-09-13)
314. Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken? (2023-09-08)
315. The prince of prints and his prints of Prince (2023-09-06)
316. How to fight a patent pirate (2023-09-02)
317. Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank (2023-08-31)
318. The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (2023-08-26)
319. Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble (2023-08-23)
320. Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it (2023-08-18)
321. Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses (2023-08-16)
322. The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans (2023-08-11)
323. Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma (2023-08-09)
324. A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy (2023-08-05)
325. Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle (2023-08-03)
326. Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit (2023-08-01)
327. Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? (2023-07-28)
328. Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper (2023-07-27)
329. Planet Money Paper Club (2023-07-22)
330. Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker (2023-07-19)
331. Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet (2023-07-15)
332. Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school (2023-07-13)
333. The quest to save macroeconomics from itself (2023-07-08)
334. Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways (2023-07-06)
335. Supply, demand, extinction (2023-07-01)
336. Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie (2023-06-28)
337. Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police (2023-06-24)
338. Twins (classic) (2023-06-21)
339. The 60-day job race (2023-06-16)
340. Two Indicators: The economics of innovation (2023-06-15)
341. The town that changed economics (2023-06-10)
342. The Spider-Man Problem (update) (2023-06-08)
343. AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization (2023-06-03)
344. AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine (2023-06-01)
345. AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines (2023-05-26)
346. Green energy gridlock (2023-05-25)
347. Predictions: Jobs! (2023-05-20)
348. How AI could help rebuild the middle class (2023-05-18)
349. Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral (2023-05-13)
350. The Day of Two Noons (Classic) (2023-05-10)
351. How to fight a squatting goat (2023-05-06)
352. Two Indicators: the influencer industry (2023-05-04)
353. Financial advising while Black (2023-04-28)
354. The zoo economy (classic) (2023-04-27)
355. The quest for the factory-built house (2023-04-22)