Planet Money

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