Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneakerFor episode 2 of Planet Money Summer School, we are talking strategy. You have your million dollar business […]

Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internetWhen you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a […]

Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business schoolFind all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here. Planet Money Summer School is back! It’s the free e […]

The quest to save macroeconomics from itselfWhen it comes to big questions about the economy, we’re still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow s […]

Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subwaysTwo stories today. First, as we start to understand post-affirmative action America, we […]

Supply, demand, extinctionBack 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 d […]

Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a LieThe shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove […]

Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture PoliceIn 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It was just him and a truck […]

Twins (classic)Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like “Can you read each other’s minds?” or “Can you feel each other’s pain?” Two of our Planet […]

The 60-day job racePeople 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 […]

Two Indicators: The economics of innovationInnovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it’s treatments for serious diseases, d […]

The town that changed economicsIn the early 90s, when a young economist named Michael Kremer finished his PhD, there had been a few economic studies based on […]

The Spider-Man Problem (update)(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the second largest […]

AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for MechanizationIt’s the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first episode of Planet Money wri […]

AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machineIn Part 1 of this series, AI proved that it could use real research and real interviews to write an original script for an […]

AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machinesWe used to think some jobs were safe from automation. Though machines have transformed industries like agriculture and […]

Green energy gridlockLyle 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 […]

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

How AI could help rebuild the middle classFor the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a shrinking middle class. But […]

Inflation and the Profit-Price SpiralEconomists say that inflation is just too much money chasing too few goods. But something else can make inflation stick […]