The Smoot Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can we learn from them? Today on the show, we tell the ...

Windell Curole spent decades working to protect his community in southern Louisiana from the destructive flooding caused by hurricanes. His local office in ...

As people learn more about Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, one story comes up over and over: a legendary trade that he played ...

The dreaded data breach notification… It tells you your personal data’s been compromised and suggests steps you can take to minimize the potential ...

You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because it was comfy. Or blue. Or the right price. But what ...

A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did: Lots of paperwork; a ...

Mass deportations. What would actually happen—economically—if the President-elect follows through on promises to deport millions of people from America. We ...

Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a ritual dating back centuries. Osing refers ...

This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It’s a breakthrough called ...

On the day after the election, Wall Street responded in a dramatic way. Some stocks went way up, others went way down. By reading those signals — by breaking ...

Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of high-poverty neighborhoods into low-poverty ones. They ...

Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy that home with a VA loan because of Ray’s service ...

If you… exist in the world, it’s likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen. This happened ...

There’s something strange going on in hospitals. Cheap, common drugs that nurses use every day seem to be constantly hit by shortages. These are often ...

On today’s show, we have two stories from The Indicator, Planet Money‘s daily podcast. They just launched Love Week, a weeklong series exploring ...

Over the past two decades, there’s been a sort of tectonic economic shift happening under our feet. More and more companies have switched from selling ...

(For our story on this year’s Nobel in Economics, check out our daily show, The Indicator!) Let’s face it. Economics is filled with terms that ...

Even in our modern world with planes and jets and drones, the vast majority of goods are moved around the planet in cargo ships. Which means our ports are the ...

Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking a page from economics textbooks, the state instituted a ...

The lawyer commercial is almost an art form unto itself. Learned practitioners of the law doing whatever it takes to get your attention, from impressive dirt ...