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Robby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But...

Live event info and tickets here.If something is going wrong in your workplace, there's probably a law that explains why. Meetings always...

What do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and training and natural...

Heated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode. That is remarkably cheap for an hour-long...

The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old...

Live event info and tickets here. ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost?...

Live event info and tickets here.The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year?...

Book tour and ticket info here.Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell Greenland. And at a...

Book tour event details and ticket info here.An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competitive...

Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and...

Book tour tickets and details here.The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this time –...

Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car...

Book tour dates and ticket info here.Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about it plays well with...

In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones....

Book tour dates and ticket info here.Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the people willing to risk...

Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for...

Venezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most famous and profitable oil...

Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the...

Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher and higher. The problem is that...

The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But...

We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike and the capture of...

2025 is finally over. It was a wild year for the U.S. economy. Tariffs transformed global trading, consumer sentiment hit near-historic...

With the year coming to a close, we're sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025! As U.S. trade with China exploded in...

Most stories keep going even after we set down our microphones and the music fades up. That's why, at the end of each year, we look back...

On the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of...

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes,...

Welcome to the inaugural Planet Money Pop Culture Draft! In today's episode (a Planet Money+ episode we’re releasing into the main feed)...

In 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property taxes, but what...

From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last...

A few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went to investors around the world asking if they'd...

Vote for us in NPR’s People’s Choice Awards: npr.org/peopleschoice AI is already reshaping how people find work. Fewer entry-level jobs,...

Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. And it’s fueled by an elaborate series...

Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is a...

Wherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They’re like buddies that do everything together. Consumer sentiment...

Tariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on-going saga with billions at stake!On today’s...

Last month, during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the United States had...

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2022.)Every time you shop online and make it to the checkout screen, you see those...

When people in Maine prisons started getting laptops to use in their cells for online classes and homework, it sparked this new idea. Could...

People in the U.S. are feeling the financial squeeze, in part because of rising inflation, higher consumer prices and slowing job growth....

This week’s SNAP crisis is just a preview. Tucked inside the giant tax-cut and spending bill signed by President Donald Trump this summer...

For decades, the U.S. has been the single biggest source of remittances worldwide. A remittance is a transfer of money, typically from an...

The U.S. Constitution famously outlaws “cruel and unusual punishments.” But there's another, far more obscure part of the Constitution...

When TikTok videos started to go viral on Instagram and Reddit, TikTok turned to professional sound designers to protect their content.More...

Bjarne Caesar Skinnerup works as a maritime pilot in the straits of Denmark. That means he’s used to seeing oil tankers. But after the...

In 1975, New York City ran out of money. For a decade it had managed to pay for its hundreds of thousands of city employees and robust...

The U.S. government spends a ton of money, on everything from Medicare to roads to defense. In fact, it spends way more than it takes in....

Pre-order the Planet Money book here for your free gift. Our sister show, The Indicator, is chronicling the evolving business of crime for...

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We want to make a board game. It must, of course, teach the world about economics. It must be fun. It’d be nice if it sold lots of copies!...

The next time you open your fridge, take a second to behold the miracles inside of it: Raspberries from California, butter from New...

On Wall Street, fortunes are often won and lost with the tiniest advantages. And for the past few years, one trading firm has stood out...

Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the...

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2016.)It’s no secret that CEOs get paid a ton – and a ton more than the average worker....

Last month, President Donald Trump announced an unusual deal. Intel, the biggest microchip maker in America, had agreed to give the United...

There’s one question we seem to be hearing everywhere: “Is my job safe from AI?” Dozens of you, our listeners, have written to us about...

President Donald Trump has been pressuring the Federal Reserve from a few angles. So we wanted to look at other examples of political...

When we stumbled upon Milk.com, we were mystified. It appears to be someone’s personal website. But memorable domain names can be worth a...

The Federal Reserve has been under intense pressure from President Donald Trump as he pushes for more control over the historically...

Get your own personalized summer school diploma here.Today on our final episode of Summer School 2025, we will test your knowledge. We will...

In the past couple years, demand has gone wild for drugs like Ozempic – and its cousins, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. For people who had...

Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free...

For most Americans, we just lived through the highest period of inflation in our lives. And we are reminded of this every time we go...

In economics, a market is a place (even virtual) where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods or services. Economists love markets. It's...

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified....

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand....

Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately,...

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here. There are occasional incentives in business that make it very profitable to do bad...

LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied...

Although it seems like the government can spend an endless amount of money, it cannot actually do all the things it wants to do. So the big...

It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on... manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been...

Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential American service survive and...

We all know the government uses taxes to pay for things. But what about using taxes to control behavior? This week on Summer School,...

What people might picture when they think of "Made in America" ... might not look like the "Made in America" we have today.The U.S. does...

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel...

If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it...

There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions...

In 2019, President Trump tweeted: "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies." Today, the Trumps are all over crypto.There are...

Econ Battle Zone is back! On today's episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium to throw down against reigning champion...

The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But...

Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023.Every year, the U.S. government spends more money than it takes in. In order to fund all...

What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been...

When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were startled. Typically, presidents don't have...

Over the past decade, politicians from both parties have courted American voters with an enticing economic prospect – the dream of bringing...

Today on the show – our crypto president. Just before President Donald Trump began his second administration in January, he and his...

Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what's happening through...

American universities are where people go to learn and teach. They're also where research and development happens. Over the past eight...

You might have seen these texts before. The scam starts innocently enough. Maybe it's a "Long time no see" or "Hello" or "How are you." For...

Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators!From...

Even though the 145% tariff on Chinese imports only lasted a month, it already inflicted its scars on the economy. Global trade is just not...

The U.S. exports billions of dollars worth of agricultural products each year — things like soybeans, corn and pork. And over the last...

For decades, dollars have been the world's common financial language. Central banks everywhere hold dollars as a way to safely store their...

Virtually every product brought into the United States must have a so-called "country of origin." Think of it as the official place it...

Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicly accessible toilets. But many had...

On today's show: we're ... venting.We at Planet Money are an ensemble show – each with different curiosities and styles. But we recently...

Reporter Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi's Aunt Vovi signed up for 23andMe back in 2017, hoping to learn more about the genetic makeup of her...

President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has...

Recently, one of our NPR colleagues wrote a message to all of NPR saying he had extra eggs to sell for cheap, but needed a fair way to...

OIRA — the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — is an obscure, but powerful federal office around the corner from the White...

How do you run a business when a trade war is brewing? As President Trump's tariffs kick in - or are paused or are restarted - businesses...

At the heart of President Trump's tariffs is this idea that we should not be buying more from other countries than they are buying from us....

Ever wondered why you can buy fresh Peruvian blueberries in the dead of winter? The answer, surprisingly, is tied to cocaine. Today on the...

What are tariffs good for?For years, mainstream economists have basically said: tariffs are not good. They are an import tax paid by...

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? This episode, we partner with Radiolab to take stock of the essential raw...

The deal seemed too good to be true. There's a website that's been selling top quality diamonds at bizarrely low prices. Prices we couldn't...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all...

Note: This original episode ran in 2020.Walter Schramm did everything right as an investor — at least according to the philosophy of Warren...

Tupperware is the stealthy star of our modern homes. These plastic storage containers are ubiquitous in our fridges, pantries, and closets....

If you cut every single federal job President Donald Trump wants to cut, how much money would that save? A president has tried to massively...

In some ways, starting a bank is a lot like starting any other business. Who will you hire? Where will you be located? What color will the...

Memecoins are having a moment. Everyone from Hawk Tuah to President Donald Trump to animal influencers like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have...

What do Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, social media sensation Hawk Tuah, and the President of the United States all have in common? They've all...

Last year, Tyson Foods shuttered a meat processing plant in Perry, Iowa. The company said it made the decision because the plant was old...

There's this cautionary tale, in the finance world, that nearly any trader can tell you. It's about placing too much confidence in math and...

So the president can't spend more money than Congress has agreed and voted to spend. But can the president spend less money than Congress...

There has been chaotic uncertainty around billions of dollars allocated by Congress. The Trump administration ordered a pause on — and...

The trip that changed Tigran Gambaryan's life forever was supposed to be short — just a few days. When he flew to Nigeria in February of...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood reinforced...

Americans spend more on scratch lottery tickets per year than on pizza. More than all Coca-Cola products. Yet the scratch ticket as a...

On Monday, the stock market went into a tizzy over a new AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek. It seemed to be just as powerful as many...

When it comes to solar and wind power, renewable energy has always had a caveat: it can only run when the wind blows or the sun shines.The...

After being sworn into office, President Trump signed a whole host of executive actions and orders that affirm his campaign promise to...

The fires in Los Angeles are almost out. Residents are starting to trickle back into their burned-out neighborhoods. When they get to their...

Donald Trump is just about to begin his second presidency. And it may be safe to say that every single person in America has at least one...

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2018.)Is it really cheaper to shop at an airport Duty Free store? And why are so many of them...

You know Watergate, but do you know Fedgate? The more subtle scandal with more monetary policy and, arguably, much higher stakes.In today's...

The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It started as a way to...

Ever since free trade opened up between the US and Mexico in the 1990s, trillions of dollars of goods have been going back and forth...

If you believe the hype, translators will all soon be out of work. Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of the language learning app Duolingo,...

After the gift exchange comes another great holiday tradition: returns season. Once again, we are joining the fun in our own Planet Money...

This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less held around...

Our planet is in serious trouble. There are a million species of plants and animals in danger of extinction, and the biggest cause is...

Sports gambling isn't exactly a financial market, but it rhymes with financial markets. What happens on Wall Street somehow eventually also...

Why do some nations fail and others succeed?In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would...

The Smoot Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can we learn from them?Today on the...

Windell Curole spent decades working to protect his community in southern Louisiana from the destructive flooding caused by hurricanes. His...

As people learn more about Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, one story comes up over and over: a legendary trade...

The dreaded data breach notification... It tells you your personal data's been compromised and suggests steps you can take to minimize the...

You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because it was comfy. Or blue. Or the...

A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did:...

Mass deportations. What would actually happen—economically—if the President-elect follows through on promises to deport millions of people...

Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a ritual dating back...

This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It's a...

On the day after the election, Wall Street responded in a dramatic way. Some stocks went way up, others went way down. By reading those...

Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of high-poverty neighborhoods into...

Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy that home with a VA loan because of...

If you... exist in the world, it's likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen....

There's something strange going on in hospitals. Cheap, common drugs that nurses use every day seem to be constantly hit by shortages....

On today's show, we have two stories from The Indicator, Planet Money's daily podcast. They just launched Love Week, a weeklong series...

Over the past two decades, there's been a sort of tectonic economic shift happening under our feet. More and more companies have switched...

(For our story on this year's Nobel in Economics, check out our daily show, The Indicator!)Let's face it. Economics is filled with terms...

Even in our modern world with planes and jets and drones, the vast majority of goods are moved around the planet in cargo ships. Which...

Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking a page from economics textbooks, the...

The lawyer commercial is almost an art form unto itself. Learned practitioners of the law doing whatever it takes to get your attention,...

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2016.)Back in 2016, things were pretty bad in Venezuela. Grocery stores didn't have...

"Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy."That is the bold promise in Planet Money's tagline. And we...

Next week, JD Vance and Tim Walz will face off in the only confirmed vice presidential debate ahead of the election. As voters look ahead...

Table saws are extremely dangerous. The government estimates that injuries from table saws send something like 30,000 people to the...

People often say that money can't buy you happiness. Sometimes, if you ask them to tell you more about it, they'll mention a famous 2010...

Today we have a guest episode from 99 Percent Invisible.It is about White Castle, the burger chain. Even if you haven't visited, you have...

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to get inflation under control. One side effect is that taking out a mortgage to buy a home has...

Are the promises made by AI boosters all hype, or are we actually under-appreciating the transformative potential of AI?Can artificial...

Summer camp is a classic rite of passage in the U.S. It's a place of self-discovery, where kids come to make new friends and take on new...

Campaigns can be a jargony slog. And this year, we are seeing a lot of economic terms being thrown around, many of which... aren't entirely...

When Cody Fischer decided to get into real estate development, he had a vision. He wanted to build affordable, energy efficient apartments...

Take the 2024 Planet Money Summer School Quiz here to earn your personalized diploma!Find all the episodes from this season of Summer...

When David Rashid took over US autoparts maker Plews and Edelmann, the company was losing business to its Chinese rival, Qingdao Sunsong....

Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School. When we last...

You might have seen ads for online banking services that seem to offer a lot of great stuff — accounts you can open in minutes and without...

Episodes each Wednesday through labor day. Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok...

For some sports, picking the winner is simple: It's the athlete who crosses the finish line first, or the side that scores the most goals....

Episodes each Wednesday through labor day. Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok...

Maybe you got a boring slip of paper in the mail. Maybe you got a spammy-looking email promising you money. Surprise! You're in a class...

Episodes each Wednesday through labor day. Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok...

Episodes each Wednesday through labor day. Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok...

Last weekend we were all thrown for a loop when President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris for the...

In 2022, artist Stuart Semple opened up his laptop to find that all his designs had turned black overnight. All the colors, across files on...

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it's usually the bosses. Today, we look at two key moments when...

4.5 million households in the U.S. have solar panels on their homes. Most of those customers are happy with it - their electricity bills...

Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today...

We often hear that air travel is worse than it's ever been. Gone are the days when airplanes touted piano bars and meat carving stations —...

At the core of most of the electronics we use today are some very tiny, very powerful chips. Semiconductor chips. And they are mighty: they...

We wade into the heated debate over immigrants' impact on the labor market. When the number of workers in a city increases, does that take...

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2019.)In 1794, George Washington decided to raise money for the federal government by...

When the vape brand Juul first hit the market back in 2015, e-cigarettes were in a kind of regulatory limbo. At the time, the rules that...

We've lived amongst Elon Musk headlines for so long now that it's easy to forget just how much he sounds like a sci-fi character. He runs a...

There's a behind the scenes industry that helps big brands decide questions like: How big should a bag of chips be? What's the right size...

Graphite is sort of the one-hit wonder of minerals. And that hit? Pencils. Everyone loves to talk about pencils when it comes to graphite....

Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you...

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You...

There is a constant arms race between law enforcement and criminals, especially when it comes to technology. For years, law enforcement has...

We are living in a kind of golden age for online fraudsters. As the number of apps and services for storing and sending money has exploded...

On today's episode, we ride through the streets of San Francisco with a long-time junkman, Jon Rolston. Jon has spent the last two decades...

By one estimate, 40 percent of American workers get laid off at least once in their careers. And when that happens, companies will often...

Last month, the world narrowly avoided a cyberattack of stunning ambition. The targets were some of the most important computers on the...

In the past few months, the price of gold has gone way up – even hitting a new high last month at just over $2,400 per troy ounce. Gold has...

Karen McDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she saw something odd outside her window: a...

Why do video game workers offer labor at a discount? How can you design a video game for blind and sighted players? Does that design have...

Today on the show, the story of the modern consumer movement in the U.S. and the person who inspired it: Ralph Nader. How Ralph Nader's...

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2021.)Millions of American workers in all sorts of industries have signed some form of noncompete...

About thirty years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan woke up to the news that the temple he and his clan used had been broken into. The temple had...

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2023.)Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions...

For the last year and a half, the story of FTX has focused largely on the crimes and punishment of Sam Bankman-Fried. But in the...

What's going on with consumers? This is one of the trickiest puzzles of this weird economic moment we're in. We've covered a version of...

TikTok, and other apps like it, are filled with financial advice. Some of it is reliable, some... less so. There are videos about running a...

This episode originally ran in 2015.About one hundred years ago, a scientist and statistician named Francis Galston came upon an...

Last month, Japan's central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years. That is a really big deal, because it means that one...

In 2019, Mike Ketchmark got a call. Mike is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, and his friend, Brandon Boulware, another lawyer, was...

There's been a lot of disagreement in Congress and in the country about whether the U.S. should continue to financially support the wars in...

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2020.)In the restaurant game, you need to make the most of every table every minute you are open. And...

It is rare that a new e-commerce company has such a meteoric rise as Temu. The company, which launched in the fall of 2022, has been...

Steel manufacturing was at one point the most important industry in the United States. It was one of the biggest employers, a driver of...

When you buy a bottle of rum in the United States, by law nearly all the federal taxes on that rum must be sent to Puerto Rico and the U.S....

The wind power business is a bit contradictory right now. It's showing signs of boom and bust seemingly all at once. The story of wind...

When you sit down to watch the Oscars, what you are really watching is the final battle in a months-long war of financial engineering and...

Dynamic pricing is an increasingly common phenomenon: You can see it when Uber prices surge during rainy weather, or when you're booking a...

It is so expensive to have a kid in the United States. The U.S. is one of just a handful of countries worldwide with no federal paid...

Fundraising is a staple of the school experience in the U.S. There's an assembly showing off all the prizes kids can win by selling enough...

Réka Juhász is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and she studies what's known as industrial policy. That's...

The Department of Defense's proposed budget for 2024 is $842 billion. That is about 3.5% of the U.S.'s GDP. The military buys everything...

The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. It doesn't pay U.S. taxes, none of its crew are U.S. nationals, and when it sailed through the...

L, is for the way you Listen to Planet MoneyO, is for the Only podcast I hearV, is Very, very, fiduciaryE, is for... ECONOMICS! Every...

Keith King was upset when his marriage ended. His wife had cheated, and his family broke apart. And that's when he learned about a very old...

There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about...

It's Groundhog Day, and the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in western Pennsylvania. And, just like last year, all anyone...

Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.German families in the 60s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken that was suddenly coming in...

Our friends at NPR's news quiz Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! recently had a very Planet Money guest on their show: Treasury Secretary Janet...

At around 1 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1994, Captain Prentice "Skip" Strong III woke to a distress call. Skip was the new captain...

On today's episode, we have three big economic ideas for your consideration – ideas that could potentially improve the economy and make us...

After very high inflation, the United States is finally feeling some relief in the form of "disinflation." But, why exactly has inflation...

On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We...

When you think of a potato, one state probably comes to mind: Idaho. But for much of American history, Maine was home to the nation's...

There's this fundamental question in economics that has proven really hard to answer: What's a good way to help people out of poverty? The...

Picture the Pacific Ocean of the 16th century. Spanish Galleons sail the wide open seas, carrying precious cargo like silver, porcelain,...

It's that time of year again! Our annual year-end tradition of checking in on the stories we've reported and the people we met along the...

Today on the show, hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator debate the economic indicators of this year and next year.First up, we try to...

*Note: This episode originally ran in 2020*'Tis the season for Americans to head out in droves and bring home a freshly-cut Christmas tree....

Argentina has been on a decades-long search for economic stability, but it always seems to be out of reach. High inflation has been...

The research keeps coming in on remote work. New evidence suggests working from home, at least full-time, may not be as productive as we...

Economics Job Market Rumors is a website that's half a job information Wiki, where people post about what's going on inside economics...

Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's __________.The best part of waking up, is _______ in your cup!Got ____?If you can identify these...

What if you could borrow money on the cheap and use it to pay for just about anything? The U.S. government can, and does, with U.S....

Remember pagers? They were huge in the 80s — these little devices that could receive short messages. Sir Mix-A-Lot even had a song about...

Today on the show, we have two episodes from our daily podcast, The Indicator, about things we spend a lot of time thinking about this time...

Would you say that you and your family are better off or worse off, financially, than you were a year ago? Do you think in 12 months we'll...

In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. And, jokes aside, it's a real problem for people...

Here at Planet Money, Thanksgiving is not just a time to feast on turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casseroles and pie(s). It's...

Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly...

China's economic growth for the past few decades has been extraordinary. And much of that growth was fueled by real estate – it was like...

When best-selling thriller writer Douglas Preston began playing around with OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, he was, at first, impressed. But...

The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries,...