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Indicators of the Year, Past and Future2025 is finally over. It was a wild year for the U.S. economy. Tariffs transformed global trading, consumer sentiment hit […]
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Why economists got free trade with China so wrongWith the year coming to a close, we’re sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025! As U.S. tr […]
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The Rest of the Story, 2025Most stories keep going even after we set down our microphones and the music fades up. That’s why, at the end of each year, we look b […]
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The summer I turned binge-yOn the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of […]
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What AI data centers are doing to your electric billAs a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire […]
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PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 editionWelcome to the inaugural Planet Money Pop Culture Draft! In today’s episode (a Planet Money+ episode we’re releasing int […]
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When Chicago pawned its parking metersIn 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property t […]
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Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wearFrom nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most r […]
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How hurricanes became a hot investmentA few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went to investors around the world […]
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Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)Vote for us in NPR’s People’s Choice Awards: npr.org/peopleschoice AI is already reshaping how people find work […]
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Capitalism (Taylor’s Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. And it’s f […]
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Saving lives with fewer dollarsGivewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is […]
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The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending PuzzleWherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They’re like buddies that do everything t […]
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Days of our TariffsTariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on-going saga with billions at stake! On today’s episo […]
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The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out ArgentinaLast month, during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent […]
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Buy now, pay dearly? (update)(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2022.) Every time you shop online and make it to the checkout screen, you see those […]
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A new experiment in remote work … from the insideWhen people in Maine prisons started getting laptops to use in their cells for online classes and homework, it […]
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Everything’s more expensive!! Pet Care!! Concert Tickets!! (Two Indicators)People in the U.S. are feeling the financial squeeze, in part because of rising inflation, […]
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After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in troubleThis week’s SNAP crisis is just a preview. Tucked inside the giant tax-cut and spending bill signed by President D […]
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The remittance mysteryFor decades, the U.S. has been the single biggest source of remittances worldwide. A remittance is a transfer of money, typically from an […]
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