The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world’s economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, ...

When a group of amateur investors rallied around the stock for GameStop back in 2021, the story blew up the internet. News outlets around the world, including ...

Erin Plante is a private detective who specializes in chasing down stolen cryptocurrency. In March of 2022, she got the biggest assignment of her career: ...

In China, data on the economy is sometimes difficult to come by. The Chinese government has put a pause on releasing some of its official economic data. But ...

When economists and policymakers talk about getting inflation under control, there’s an assumption they often make: bringing inflation down will probably ...

In 1981, photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of the musician Prince. It’s a pretty standard headshot — it’s in black-and-white, and Prince ...

Back in the 1990s, Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. Some university scientists in ...

Congratulations to the Planet Money Summer School Class of 2023! Today, you become masters of business administration… spelled with lower-case letters ...

Across Hollywood right now, writers and actors are picketing in front of studio lots. They’re walking back and forth, holding up signs demanding ...

How do you get the best deal? How do you know you’re getting the best deal? Whether you’re talking down the price of a car or talking up your ...

Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice. Every single worker in the European Union is ...

“It’s difficult to control everything,” says our guest professor for this week, Santiago Gallino. “What is not difficult is to plan for ...

This summer, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers. Except, on the same day Biden first ...

For anyone running a business, technology is both threat and opportunity. Today, we run through techniques entrepreneurs can use to take advantage of new tech ...

Predicting the future of the economy is always a dicey proposition. That is especially true after more than three years of pandemic-related economic weirdness. ...

In this session of Planet Money Summer School, we are getting the word out about your brand. How do you convince consumers to buy your product, even if they ...

There’s an estimated $195 billion of medical debt in America. But just because a medical bill comes in the mail doesn’t mean you have to pay that ...

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino are two of the biggest stars in behavioral science. Both have conducted blockbuster research into how to make people more honest, ...

Usually, the first class that an MBA student takes is accounting. That involves, yes, equations and counting widgets…but it’s more than that. ...

We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain ...