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Why Gold? (Classic)

18 mins; May 15, 2024

Zombie mortgages are coming back to life

30 mins; May 10, 2024

Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)

18 mins; May 08, 2024

The birth of the modern consumer movement

20 mins; May 03, 2024

Hire Power (Update)

22 mins; May 01, 2024

The case of the stolen masks

18 mins; April 26, 2024

How unions are stopped before they start (Update)

32 mins; April 24, 2024

FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy

25 mins; April 19, 2024

Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)

17 mins; April 17, 2024

TikTok made me deduct it

20 mins; April 12, 2024

How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)

17 mins; April 10, 2024

Japan's Lost Decades

22 mins; April 05, 2024

The real estate industry on trial

28 mins; April 03, 2024

How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine

23 mins; March 29, 2024

The trouble with Table 101 (Update)

24 mins; March 27, 2024

What is Temu?

25 mins; March 22, 2024

How Big Steel in the U.S. fell

22 mins; March 20, 2024

The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum

23 mins; March 15, 2024

Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators)

16 mins; March 13, 2024

On the Oscars campaign trail

25 mins; March 08, 2024

Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you?

25 mins; March 06, 2024

Shopping for parental benefits around the world

29 mins; March 01, 2024

The secret world behind school fundraisers

27 mins; February 28, 2024

A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics

25 mins; February 23, 2024

Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry

19 mins; February 21, 2024

How the Navy came to protect cargo ships

19 mins; February 16, 2024

It's giving ... Valentines

26 mins; February 14, 2024

A lawsuit for your broken heart

22 mins; February 09, 2024

Morally questionable, economically efficient

24 mins; February 07, 2024

Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed

26 mins; February 02, 2024

The Chicken Tax (Classic)

15 mins; January 31, 2024

Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

10 mins; January 29, 2024

Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune

26 mins; January 26, 2024

Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas

23 mins; January 24, 2024

Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation

31 mins; January 19, 2024

Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators

16 mins; January 17, 2024

The Maine Potato War of 1976

24 mins; January 12, 2024

The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya

24 mins; January 10, 2024

The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships

26 mins; January 05, 2024

The Rest of the Story, 2023

25 mins; December 29, 2023

The Indicators of this year and next

15 mins; December 27, 2023

We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update)

31 mins; December 22, 2023

Dollarizing Argentina

24 mins; December 20, 2023

How to be better at hybrid work, according to research

15 mins; December 18, 2023

What econ says in the shadows

26 mins; December 15, 2023

Why '90s ads are unforgettable

26 mins; December 13, 2023

The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained

13 mins; December 11, 2023

Why do doctors still use pagers?

26 mins; December 08, 2023

Two food and drink indicators

19 mins; December 06, 2023

Why are we so bummed about the economy?

23 mins; December 01, 2023

So you want to sell marijuana across state lines

23 mins; November 29, 2023

A very Planet Money Thanksgiving

26 mins; November 22, 2023

Economic fact in literary fiction

26 mins; November 17, 2023

China's real estate crisis, explained

20 mins; November 15, 2023

The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT

23 mins; November 10, 2023

Never have I ever

28 mins; November 08, 2023

FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon

30 mins; November 03, 2023

Antitrust in America (classic)

40 mins; November 01, 2023

All you can eat economics

25 mins; October 27, 2023

Cutting school... by 20%

23 mins; October 25, 2023

How unions are stopped before they start

27 mins; October 20, 2023

Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation

18 mins; October 18, 2023

Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance

27 mins; October 13, 2023

Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic)

19 mins; October 11, 2023

A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay

23 mins; October 06, 2023

The flight attendants of CHAOS

28 mins; October 04, 2023

A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions

26 mins; September 29, 2023

The natural disaster economist

23 mins; September 27, 2023

A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina

23 mins; September 22, 2023

"Based on a true story"

28 mins; September 20, 2023

How to launder $600 million on the internet

26 mins; September 15, 2023

China's weakening economy in two Indicators

18 mins; September 13, 2023

Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?

23 mins; September 08, 2023

The prince of prints and his prints of Prince

28 mins; September 06, 2023

How to fight a patent pirate

25 mins; September 01, 2023

Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank

31 mins; August 30, 2023

The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines

21 mins; August 25, 2023

Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble

33 mins; August 23, 2023

Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it

25 mins; August 18, 2023

Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses

32 mins; August 16, 2023

The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans

26 mins; August 11, 2023

Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma

34 mins; August 09, 2023

A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy

25 mins; August 04, 2023

Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle

32 mins; August 02, 2023

Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit

17 mins; July 31, 2023

Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data?

25 mins; July 28, 2023

Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper

32 mins; July 26, 2023

Planet Money Paper Club

23 mins; July 21, 2023

Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker

31 mins; July 19, 2023

Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet

23 mins; July 14, 2023

Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school

32 mins; July 12, 2023

The quest to save macroeconomics from itself

18 mins; July 07, 2023

Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways

19 mins; July 05, 2023

Supply, demand, extinction

28 mins; June 30, 2023

Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie

23 mins; June 28, 2023

Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police

25 mins; June 23, 2023

Twins (classic)

20 mins; June 21, 2023

The 60-day job race

26 mins; June 16, 2023

Two Indicators: The economics of innovation

19 mins; June 14, 2023

The town that changed economics

24 mins; June 09, 2023

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