Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon ...

If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it up in one line. It ...

There’s an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the national ...

In 2019, President Trump tweeted: “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies.” Today, the Trumps are all over crypto. There are ...

Econ Battle Zone is back! On today’s episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium to throw down against reigning champion Erika Beras. ...

The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But now, President Trump ...

Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023. Every year, the U.S. government spends more money than it takes in. In order to fund all that spending, the ...

What was it like to work inside Elon Musk’s DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been shrouded in ...

When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were startled. Typically, presidents don’t have the authority ...

Over the past decade, politicians from both parties have courted American voters with an enticing economic prospect – the dream of bringing manufacturing and ...

Today on the show – our crypto president. Just before President Donald Trump began his second administration in January, he and his business partners launched ...

Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what’s happening through the lens of game ...

American universities are where people go to learn and teach. They’re also where research and development happens. Over the past eight decades, ...

You might have seen these texts before. The scam starts innocently enough. Maybe it’s a “Long time no see” or “Hello” or ...

Lately we’ve noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators! From the more ...

Even though the 145% tariff on Chinese imports only lasted a month, it already inflicted its scars on the economy. Global trade is just not something you can ...

The U.S. exports billions of dollars worth of agricultural products each year — things like soybeans, corn and pork. And over the last month, these exports ...

For decades, dollars have been the world’s common financial language. Central banks everywhere hold dollars as a way to safely store their wealth. ...

Virtually every product brought into the United States must have a so-called “country of origin.” Think of it as the official place it comes from. ...

Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicly accessible toilets. But many had locks on the doors and ...