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The Spider-Man Problem (update)

30 mins; June 07, 2023

AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization

33 mins; June 02, 2023

AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine

31 mins; May 31, 2023

AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines

33 mins; May 26, 2023

Green energy gridlock

22 mins; May 24, 2023

Predictions: Jobs!

20 mins; May 19, 2023

How AI could help rebuild the middle class

21 mins; May 17, 2023

Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral

26 mins; May 12, 2023

The Day of Two Noons (Classic)

18 mins; May 10, 2023

How to fight a squatting goat

28 mins; May 05, 2023

How you fight a squatting goat

28 mins; May 05, 2023

Two Indicators: the influencer industry

19 mins; May 03, 2023

Financial advising while Black

27 mins; April 28, 2023

The zoo economy (classic)

16 mins; April 26, 2023

The quest for the factory-built house

26 mins; April 21, 2023

Tax Code Switch

24 mins; April 19, 2023

The life and possible death of low interest rates

25 mins; April 14, 2023

Two innovation market indicators

18 mins; April 12, 2023

Your banking questions, answered

26 mins; April 07, 2023

The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches

22 mins; April 05, 2023

The safety net for banks

23 mins; March 31, 2023

A Great Recession bank takeover

18 mins; March 29, 2023

The battle over Osage headrights

23 mins; March 24, 2023

Inside a bank run

33 mins; March 23, 2023

Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit

29 mins; March 17, 2023

How Silicon Valley Bank failed

21 mins; March 15, 2023

Dude, where's my streaming TV show?

26 mins; March 10, 2023

The value of good teeth

22 mins; March 08, 2023

Seinfeld-onomics

18 mins; March 03, 2023

CBOhhhh, that's what they do

24 mins; March 01, 2023

Meow Money Meow Problems

27 mins; February 24, 2023

Hollywood's Black List (Classic)

23 mins; February 22, 2023

Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure

26 mins; February 17, 2023

Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now

18 mins; February 15, 2023

Our 2023 valentines

26 mins; February 10, 2023

The ice cream conspiracy

24 mins; February 08, 2023

Baby's first market failure

23 mins; February 03, 2023

Groundhog Day 2023

24 mins; February 01, 2023

To all the econ papers I've loved before

24 mins; January 27, 2023

The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism

22 mins; January 25, 2023

Charles Ponzi's scheme

22 mins; January 20, 2023

Big Rigged (Classic)

24 mins; January 18, 2023

Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target

18 mins; January 13, 2023

Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life

22 mins; January 11, 2023

The economics lessons in kids' books

28 mins; January 06, 2023

The Rest of the Story, 2022

24 mins; December 30, 2022

Which economic indicator defined 2022?

10 mins; December 28, 2022

In defense of gift giving

21 mins; December 23, 2022

Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing

21 mins; December 21, 2022

The sports ticket price enigma

28 mins; December 16, 2022

Spam call bounty hunter

26 mins; December 14, 2022

The case of the missing cheese racks

27 mins; December 09, 2022

When women stopped coding (Classic)

17 mins; December 07, 2022

My Favorite Tax Loophole

26 mins; December 02, 2022

Messi economics

27 mins; November 30, 2022

One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending

32 mins; November 23, 2022

How the cookie became a monster

26 mins; November 18, 2022

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