Planet Money
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Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters
Aug 7, 202436 min
What to do when you're in a class action
Aug 2, 202425 min
Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar
Jul 31, 202436 min
Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life
Jul 26, 202434 min
What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like
Jul 24, 202418 min
The color monopoly
Jul 20, 202422 min
Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms
Jul 17, 202432 min
Rooftop solar's dark side
Jul 12, 202427 min
Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World
Jul 10, 202434 min
How flying got so bad (or did it?)
Jul 5, 202425 min
The two companies driving the modern economy
Jul 3, 202420 min
Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?
Jun 29, 202425 min
The Carriage Tax (Update)
Jun 26, 202418 min
The Vapes of Wrath
Jun 21, 202427 min
Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?
Jun 19, 202428 min
What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.
Jun 14, 202424 min
Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight
Jun 12, 202425 min
How much national debt is too much?
Jun 7, 202426 min
The history of light (classic)
Jun 5, 202421 min
How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
May 31, 202423 min
So you've been scammed, now what?
May 29, 202427 min
The junkyard economist
May 24, 202425 min
Anatomy of a layoff
May 22, 202427 min
The hack that almost broke the internet
May 17, 202425 min
Why Gold? (Classic)
May 15, 202418 min
Zombie mortgages are coming back to life
May 10, 202430 min
Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)
May 8, 202418 min
The birth of the modern consumer movement
May 3, 202420 min
Hire Power (Update)
May 1, 202422 min
The case of the stolen masks
Apr 26, 202418 min
How unions are stopped before they start (Update)
Apr 24, 202432 min
FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy
Apr 19, 202425 min
Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)
Apr 17, 202417 min
TikTok made me deduct it
Apr 12, 202420 min
How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)
Apr 10, 202417 min
Japan's Lost Decades
Apr 5, 202422 min
The real estate industry on trial
Apr 3, 202428 min
How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine
Mar 29, 202423 min
The trouble with Table 101 (Update)
Mar 27, 202424 min
What is Temu?
Mar 22, 202425 min
How Big Steel in the U.S. fell
Mar 20, 202422 min
The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum
Mar 15, 202423 min
Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators)
Mar 13, 202416 min
On the Oscars campaign trail
Mar 8, 202425 min
Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you?
Mar 6, 202425 min
Shopping for parental benefits around the world
Mar 1, 202429 min
The secret world behind school fundraisers
Feb 29, 202427 min
A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics
Feb 23, 202425 min
Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry
Feb 21, 202419 min
How the Navy came to protect cargo ships
Feb 16, 202419 min