For episode 2 of Planet Money Summer School, we are talking strategy. You have your million dollar business idea, and maybe some money in your pocket to get it ...

When you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a legally enforceable contract. Even if you never signed anything. These ...

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here. Planet Money Summer School is back! It’s the free economics class you can take from anywhere… ...

When it comes to big questions about the economy, we’re still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow so much faster than others? How long ...

Two stories today. First, as we start to understand post-affirmative action America, we look to a natural experiment 25 years ago, when California ended the ...

Back in the 90s, Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota’s wildlife rescue center. And he kept getting calls from the airport to come deal with… ...

The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove conventional economic thinking. Take, for ...

In 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It was just him and a truck — a pretty small operation. Things ...

Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like “Can you read each other’s minds?” or “Can you feel each other’s ...

People come from all over the world to work in U.S. tech. And during the tech boom years, the industry relied heavily on foreign workers. This is how we built ...

Innovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it’s treatments for serious diseases, developments in AI technology, or rocket ...

In the early 90s, when a young economist named Michael Kremer finished his PhD, there had been a few economic studies based on randomized trials. But they were ...

(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the second largest domestic opening of 2023, ...

It’s the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first episode of Planet Money written by AI. In Part 1 of this ...

In Part 1 of this series, AI proved that it could use real research and real interviews to write an original script for an episode of Planet Money. Our next ...

We used to think some jobs were safe from automation. Though machines have transformed industries like agriculture and manufacturing, the conventional wisdom ...

Lyle Jack wants to build a wind farm on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But to make the project work, he has to connect that wind farm to the ...

It’s time for another installment of … Planet Money Predictions! *air horn* Last year, we invited two economic forecasters to tell us what they ...

For the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a shrinking middle class. But new empirical evidence suggests that the ...

Economists say that inflation is just too much money chasing too few goods. But something else can make inflation stick around. If you think of the 1970s, the ...