Planet Money

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