Planet Money

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...

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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...