Planet Money

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