Planet Money

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