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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...

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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...