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How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank

30 mins; April 25, 2025

A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence

19 mins; April 23, 2025

How much for that egg

31 mins; April 18, 2025

OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government

26 mins; April 16, 2025

Trade war dispatch from Canada

26 mins; April 11, 2025

Do trade deficits matter?

23 mins; April 09, 2025

How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries

27 mins; April 04, 2025

Tariffs: What are they good for?

23 mins; April 02, 2025

PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever?

37 mins; March 28, 2025

Planet Money buys a mystery diamond

32 mins; March 26, 2025

Can we just change how we measure GDP?

22 mins; March 21, 2025

Escheat show (Update)

22 mins; March 19, 2025

How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring

28 mins; March 14, 2025

The last time we shrank the federal workforce

27 mins; March 12, 2025

How to start a bank

25 mins; March 07, 2025

The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

34 mins; March 05, 2025

The Memecoin Casino

28 mins; February 28, 2025

The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers

25 mins; February 26, 2025

The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management

27 mins; February 21, 2025

Can the president override Congress on spending?

22 mins; February 19, 2025

The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze

25 mins; February 14, 2025

The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria

22 mins; February 11, 2025

The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure

23 mins; February 07, 2025

How the scratch off lottery changed America

29 mins; February 05, 2025

How DeepSeek changed the market's mind

26 mins; January 31, 2025

Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators)

17 mins; January 29, 2025

The "chilling effect" of deportations

23 mins; January 24, 2025

After the fires

25 mins; January 22, 2025

Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions

27 mins; January 17, 2025

The Land of the Duty Free (classic)

20 mins; January 15, 2025

The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes

30 mins; January 10, 2025

ZIP Codes!

28 mins; January 08, 2025

The potato-shaped loophole in free trade

27 mins; January 03, 2025

If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?

17 mins; December 30, 2024

The Rest of the Story, 2024

28 mins; December 27, 2024

The Indicators of this year and next

22 mins; December 25, 2024

The habitat banker

33 mins; December 20, 2024

How sports gambling blew up

30 mins; December 18, 2024

A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality

28 mins; December 13, 2024

Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)

26 mins; December 11, 2024

There Will Be Flood

31 mins; December 06, 2024

George Soros vs. the Bank of England

30 mins; December 04, 2024

How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach?

20 mins; December 02, 2024

Why you bought your couch

26 mins; November 27, 2024

Title Pirates

25 mins; November 22, 2024

The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)

15 mins; November 20, 2024

The great German land lottery

28 mins; November 15, 2024

The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made

26 mins; November 13, 2024

What markets bet President Trump will do

26 mins; November 08, 2024

Moving to the American dream? (update)

23 mins; November 06, 2024

The veteran loan calamity

36 mins; November 01, 2024

So your data was stolen in a data breach

28 mins; October 30, 2024

Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?

26 mins; October 25, 2024

Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators

17 mins; October 23, 2024

The Subscription Trap

30 mins; October 18, 2024

We asked 188 economists. And the survey says...

21 mins; October 16, 2024

So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's??

25 mins; October 11, 2024

Can cap and trade work in the US?

24 mins; October 09, 2024

What's up with all the ads for law firms?

18 mins; October 04, 2024

How Venezuela imploded (update)

23 mins; October 02, 2024

What's THAT got to do with economics?

25 mins; September 27, 2024

Veep-onomics

25 mins; September 25, 2024

How to save 10,000 fingers

24 mins; September 20, 2024

Can money buy happiness?

28 mins; September 18, 2024

99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses

32 mins; September 16, 2024

Rate Expectations

23 mins; September 13, 2024

Is AI overrated or underrated?

18 mins; September 11, 2024

Summer camp capitalism

33 mins; September 06, 2024

Bingo! (Presidential debate edition)

29 mins; September 04, 2024

How to fix a housing shortage

23 mins; August 30, 2024

Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more

32 mins; August 28, 2024

The trade fraud detective

26 mins; August 23, 2024

Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy

35 mins; August 21, 2024

The hidden world behind your new "banking" app

21 mins; August 16, 2024

Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich

36 mins; August 14, 2024

Will the Olympics break breakdancing?

25 mins; August 09, 2024

Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters

36 mins; August 07, 2024

What to do when you're in a class action

25 mins; August 02, 2024

Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar

36 mins; July 31, 2024

Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life

34 mins; July 26, 2024

What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like

18 mins; July 24, 2024

The color monopoly

22 mins; July 19, 2024

Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms

32 mins; July 17, 2024

Rooftop solar's dark side

27 mins; July 12, 2024

Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World

34 mins; July 10, 2024

How flying got so bad (or did it?)

25 mins; July 05, 2024

The two companies driving the modern economy

20 mins; July 03, 2024

Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?

25 mins; June 28, 2024

The Carriage Tax (Update)

18 mins; June 26, 2024

The Vapes of Wrath

27 mins; June 21, 2024

Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?

28 mins; June 19, 2024

What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.

24 mins; June 14, 2024

Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight

25 mins; June 12, 2024

How much national debt is too much?

26 mins; June 07, 2024

The history of light (classic)

21 mins; June 05, 2024

How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells

23 mins; May 31, 2024

So you've been scammed, now what?

27 mins; May 29, 2024

The junkyard economist

25 mins; May 24, 2024

Anatomy of a layoff

27 mins; May 22, 2024

The hack that almost broke the internet

25 mins; May 17, 2024

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