Planet Money

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