Today on the show, we have two episodes from our daily podcast, The Indicator, about things we spend a lot of time thinking about this time of year: food and ...

Would you say that you and your family are better off or worse off, financially, than you were a year ago? Do you think in 12 months we’ll have good ...

In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. And, jokes aside, it’s a real problem for people who work in ...

Here at Planet Money, Thanksgiving is not just a time to feast on turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casseroles and pie(s). It’s also a time ...

Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly so, others more ...

China’s economic growth for the past few decades has been extraordinary. And much of that growth was fueled by real estate – it was like this miraculous ...

When best-selling thriller writer Douglas Preston began playing around with OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, he was, at first, impressed. But then he ...

The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries, high up in their ...

When Lina Khan was in law school back in 2017, she wrote a law review article called ‘Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,’ that went kinda viral in ...

Earlier this fall, the Federal Trade Commission filed a high-stakes lawsuit against Amazon. In that suit, the FTC claims Amazon is a monopoly, and it accuses ...

You might expect to find economic concepts in the pages of an economics textbook. But you know where you can really see a lot of economic concepts in action? ...

Right now, a lot of school districts across the country are making a pretty giant change to the way public education usually works. Facing teacher shortages ...

Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions among Americans was the highest it’s been in decades. This ...

When someone says “the economy is doing well”—what does that even mean? Like, for workers, for employers, for the country as a whole? According to ...

Note: There is swearing in this episode. In 2017, The University of Minnesota asked comedian Maria Bamford to give their commencement speech. But the ...

Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn’t change. From 1886 until the late 1950s, a bottle ...

In 2007, Uruguay had a massive problem with no obvious fix. The economy of this country of 3.5 million people was growing, but there wasn’t enough energy ...

When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants’ union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make. The union — The ...

Ba-dee-yah! Say do you remember? Ba-dee-yah! Questions in September! That’s right – it’s time for Listener Questions! Every so often, we like ...

There seems to be headlines about floods, wildfires, or hurricanes every week. Scientists say this might be the new normal — that climate change is making ...