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How to get what Greenland has, with permissionBook tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell G […]
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Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 ValentinesBook tour event details and ticket info here. An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, […]
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The Invention InventionBook tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and […]
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Iran, protests, and sanctionsBook tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this […]
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Riding with the repo man (update)Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their […]
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?Book tour dates and ticket info here. Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about […]
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Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced […]
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A trip to the magic mushroom megachurchBook tour dates and ticket info here. Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the p […]
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BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The […]
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Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of PlentyVenezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most fam […]
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How much money President Trump and his family have madeBefore President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorke […]
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So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher a […]
NPR wrote a new post 6 months ago

How Black hair care grew Black powerThe Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro S […]
NPR wrote a new post 6 months ago

Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike a […]
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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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